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captainhook
Novel: The Adventures of Nautilus and Shelley
Genre: Adventure
50,022 words so far   Winner!

About captainhook

Location: Stanford, California

Home Region:
United States :: California :: SF Peninsula

Age:19

Website: http://www.halloyes.blogspot.com

Favorite novels: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Pride and Prejudice, Grendel, The Phantom Tollbooth, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Everything is Illuminated, A Dirty Job, The God of Small Things, The Silmarillion, Howl's Moving Castle, Crime and Punishment

Favorite writers: Christopher Moore, Arundhati Roy, Douglas Adams, J.R.R Tolkien, Gideon Defoe, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen

Favorite music: Epic soundtracks (Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean, Stardust, the Fountain, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, you get the idea), Carmina Burana

Non-noveling interests: Life, the universe, and everything.

Joined date: November 7, 2005

Years done NaNoWriMo:
'05 | '06

Years won NaNoWriMo:
'06

NaNoWriMo posts: 12

NaNoWriMo buddies: 9

 


The Adventures of Nautilus and Shelley
an excerpt

The main results of the evening were thus: Josephine was so relieved to find John Peter Randolph III to be a charming, sensitive, dashing, humorous, and generally very agreeable man, that she fully forgot to be afraid of him. John Peter Randolph III, in turn decided once and for all that Josephine would be his future wife or he would spend the rest of his days wandering the land as a begging minstrel with an incredibly long beard and a pretty cool robe, which was by no means his preferred form of lifestyle, but he kind of liked the idea of growing an incredibly long beard, which was his main consolation in case Josephine refused him. He arrived the next night at the inn with a bouquet of flowers and a sparkling ring, both of which Josephine accepted happily, and the two were married the very next morning upon a hilltop in the sparkling sun and the whole village (which was about forty people) came out to observe the event, and there was not a dry eye in the audience, and the two lived happily ever after in a lovely little cottage and they had many wonderful children and a garden full of carrots and cabbage and other tasty things and Josephine was the best cook in the world and John Peter Randolph III was the happiest man in the world, and the two never again crossed any sort of path with Nautilus or Shelley, despite the fact that never before had they crossed paths with either Nautilus or Shelley and thus are completely irrelevant to our tale, charming as their story may be, and hence we return to the most daring adventures of our two main characters instead of dabbling in the lives of people who really have no consequence at all to the plot and so should really be left alone.

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