Have just realised that we don't actually have a dares thread this year, so I'm going to start one. So there! :-)
As a subscriber to the PG news feed, which sends me an e-mail every time they post another book to Project Gutenberg, I have decided that the very next book they post is going to end up in my novel, in some form.
I'll let you know what it is as soon as I know. :-o
Anyone else have any dares, either for themselves or everyone else?
Edit: It is 'The Crofton Boys' by Harriet Martineau, which I've never heard of. Hmm, wonder if any of my characters will have?...
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Lottie
ML for Europe::England:: Cambridge
cambridge_england[at]nanowrimo[dot]org
2007: Rising Angels, Falling Apes - ??
2006: An Ordinary World - 84k+
2005: Dreaming of Jack - 83k+
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Oct 31, 2007 - 08 13
So a dare is something like "I bet you can't include a tap-dancing lobster in the denouement of your medieval romance novel?", right?
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Oct 31, 2007 - 08 57
Absolutely! Any interesting suggestions?
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Lottie
ML for Europe::England:: Cambridge
cambridge_england[at]nanowrimo[dot]org
2007: Rising Angels, Falling Apes - ??
----------2006: An Ordinary World - 84k+
2005: Dreaming of Jack - 83k+
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Lottie
ML for Europe::England:: Cambridge
cambridge_england[at]nanowrimo[dot]org
2007: Rising Angels, Falling Apes - ??
2006: An Ordinary World - 84k+
2005: Dreaming of Jack - 83k+
71,343 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2007 - 08 04
- If your novel is sci-fi, include a race of aliens who are unnaturally stretchy
----------+ Bonus points if they use their own bodies as catapults
++ Double BP if they actually completely fail to hit anything.
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Nov 1, 2007 - 08 16
Stretchy aliens are dead cool. I want some in my plot, but I can't quite figure out where they fit in a pseduobiographical rock epic.
Hang on, I've got a whole acid trip bit around 1974 that would fit perfectly. :)
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Nov 1, 2007 - 21 46
Include the line of dialogue:
"We're too late. He's eaten the biscuits."
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Nov 3, 2007 - 02 32
After my novel got off to a tame start, I decided to change tack, and while I am staying roughly within the same plot, the language is now riddled with expletives. Hey, it's not me swearing, it's the characters. So I was wondering if anyone is going to give me any sort of competition this year when it comes to expletives count. Any of you f#%$ers up for a fight?
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Nov 4, 2007 - 22 35
If it doesn't have to be in English, maybe. My elves swear a lot, but all the human characters have Fantasy Euphemism DIsease. A blight on thy rod and staff, sirrah!
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Nov 5, 2007 - 04 27
Most have my characters have suddenly started swearing their heads off. Not surprising, considering there's a hostage situation going on, but just about every other word is a 'watershed' one at the moment., so I may well end up giving you a run for your money! :-)
I must find a way to use the phrase 'A blight on thy rod and staff, sirrah!' That's just too good to be ignored! :-)
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Lottie
ML for Europe::England:: Cambridge
cambridge_england[at]nanowrimo[dot]org
2007: Rising Angels, Falling Apes - ??
2006: An Ordinary World - 84k+
2005: Dreaming of Jack - 83k+
52,361 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2007 - 07 23
1. Type your novel in fingerless gloves
2. Don't correct a typo, but make it integral to your story
3. Answer the phone as your MC and stay in role no matter what.
I am doing the first one, not sure about the other two...
--Pingerless Bloves
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Nov 5, 2007 - 07 37
Thou base addle-pated ale-worm! Fie on thee!
There will definitely be Elizabethan swearing in mine. And boy did they know how to swear, especially here in Cambridgeshire :-)
http://www.scienceblog.com/community/older/2003/A/20037304.html
However I'm avoiding the F-word, because there was far too much of that in "The Lies of Locke Lamora" and it just got boring after a while...
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2007: Treasons, Stratagems and Spoils (alt history fantasy)
Three brothers, two murders, one stolen necklace - and a shipload of trouble!
~o~o~o~o~0~o~o~o~o~
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Nov 21, 2007 - 19 58
This must appear in the dialogue, "Bombing for Peace is like F***ing for Virginity."
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Nov 13, 2007 - 08 52
I'm doing the first, usually seem to end up doing the second, and can't possibly do the third, because he woudln't pick it up, he'd hit it with an axe, and I can't afford to replace my phone!
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Nov 15, 2007 - 08 48
Here's one I am doing at the moment: switch to Dvorak keyboard layout (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_Simplified_Keyboard) in the middle of Nano...
--PB
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Nov 15, 2007 - 13 52
--PB
Frg-p. rbw jdann.bi. ajj.ly.e! **** m. ydco co ircbi yr x. cmlroocxn.vvvvv
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Nov 19, 2007 - 09 20
However I'm avoiding the F-word, because there was far too much of that in "The Lies of Locke Lamora" and it just got boring after a while...
Blimey. I think mine is notionally set a century or so earlier than Elizabethan, but my dialogue definitely needs spicing up in places in a non-"prissy fantasy story" way. I should do a bit of research. Particularly on how to insult men in a country where being gay doesn't actually constitute much of a dent in your masculinity. What's an archaism for male infertility, I wonder... the pre-firearms version of "firing blanks" would do nicely...
I think I'm only likely to use f**k as a descriptive term, rather than an expletive, though, and since currently my MC is enforcedly celibate I'm on fairly safe ground there! Characters that are religious tend to blaspheme rather than swear when pissed off, also, which changes the character of it a bit.
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