Nearly time for NaNoWriMo!

[lostcarpark]

A while ago I posted asking for ideas, I promised to somehow incorporate every idea, no matter how outragous, somewhere into the novel. Unfortunately I didn't get many responses. So I'm going to try again, but this time be a little more specific...

If you are reading this, and can spare just a couple of minutes, please reply with the following:

1. The first fictional character name that pops into your head. Preferably something that's not copyright.

2. That character's most heartfelt desire. It could be something they want to have, something they want to do, or something they want to be. If you can think of it, a few words on why that's important to them would be great too.

3. Something that happens to them. It could be something to do with 2, or it could be simething completly unrelated, but from their point of view it's a pretty big deal. If you have any thoughts on what this means to them or how it affects them, I'd love to hear those thoughts too.

I promise to use everything that people post in the novel. Some of them may turn into major characters while others may stay in the background. This is no reflection of the individuals, and is purely based on how they fit into the plot outline I've been working on for the last few weeks.

Oh, and for anyone unfamiliar with NaNoWriMo...

Comments

[hawkida.livejournal.com]

Mickey Flint wants to share a cheese sandwich with his sister. He gets stranded at a motorway service station when his car is stolen.

[adelheid.livejournal.com]

Boris North wants to own the world's supply of leeks with the intention of holding the Welsh to hostage. He suffers from severe claustrophobia and gets trapped in a lift.

[zeit.livejournal.com]

Suave, hermaphrodite trillionaire Simon Avalon needs to secure a reliable supply of Curly-Wurlys to combat a rare form of laryngitis that can only be relieved by toffee-based, chocolate-covered confectionery in a particular topographic arrangement. He is thwarted at every turn by his arch-enemy Darren Inskipp, the 7'2" tall captain of the Buckham Hornets basketball team and Grand Master of the Illuminati from 1983-84, but now working for the civil service (Confectionery Regulation department) in Brighton.

[davesangel.livejournal.com]

Lauren Mills. She works in London (journalist maybe?) and has been madly in love with her boss for over a year, but because of office politics and colleagues who would step over their own mother to 'get ahead', she can't say anything for fear of this news getting out and about the office and generally being made a fool of. At a birthday party for an old friend (Sara) in Wales, she runs into Matt, someone she met at the previous year's party and got talking to a little bit, and she spends a lot of time with him. When she gets home from Sara's house in Wales, she has totally reassessed her feelings for the boss, and realises that she's been after the wrong guy for ages and that Matt is the bloke she wants to spend her life with because they are so similar and the whole boss thing would never realistically work. However, he's a complete workaholic and because of this, and because her job is also so intensive, she realises she can't be with him, so she has to decide whether to give up her job and go after him, or get him to move nearer to her.

I hope that made sense...I think the fact that I was watching 'Love Actually' with a friend last night has had a bit of an influence on this, so if you don't want to use any of it then that's absolutely fine.

[siraka.livejournal.com]

1. name – Renault (could be a last name)

2. heartfelt desire – Following a scandal and subsequent collapse of her line's supremacy (be it economical, status, what have you) Renault has slowly and admirably worked her way up the families of power to reclaim her status and clear her people's honor. She is the youngest and a female which counts against her with some, but she is the only heir smart enough and devoted enough to do it. It's about politics, luck, and loyalty.

3. Something that happens to them – See above + the one she most needs to ingratiate in order to learn the truth is the one who would have her be the most monstrous. Now finally in this person's presence she learns that he/she would turn Renault into the very thing her family was accused of. Renault has struggled with having to comply with tasks set against her grain and sometimes reprehensible. At heart she is a noble person and so she fights to remain true to herself and not despise the person some are forcing her to be. This could manifest itself in the form of thievery or coercion, manipulation or violence.

slurpy drama, oh yeah ^_~

[etherealfionna.livejournal.com]

Jason Thurnbull is obsessed with proving that the Trojan war took place in the Baltic region, not in the eastern Mediterranean as everybody else thinks. His second most heartfelt desire is to get even with the people who lampoon his ideas and books in various journals and publications.

In a freak accident involving a kitten, a handsaw and a bag of satsumas, Jason loses a toe. The kitten, needless to say, is unharmed.

(Jason will also be in a short sketch I hope to write next week. People who think Troy was in Finland really exist. I love this world!)

[digignome.livejournal.com]

1. JOHN TOUGHBACK
2. TO EAT A BIG PIE
3. NO PIES FOR HIM!!!!!!

You promised!

[digignome.livejournal.com]

1. Joseph Magill
2. Researching a cure for cancer
3. Ironic malady: radiation causes him to become CANCER-MAN, strikes fear into doctors everywhere

I could do this all night :D

[digignome.livejournal.com]

1. Stephen Tugsalot
2. To masturbate at the speed of light!
3. Light-speed semen goes back in time, hits his mother in the eye

[digignome.livejournal.com]

Ok I'll stop, sorry :(

[(Anonymous)]

Name: Nick Razor

Desire: To be the lead character in a novel written by James Shields.

Event: Nick is blind Covert Ops agent for the Tupperware corporation. In chapter one he visits a haunted house where he is bitten by a werewolf, and later attacked by a vampire. Therefore, he is a vampiric lycanthrope. Unfortunately, at the end of the chapter, Nick is killed. So he's a ghost-vampire-werewolf. His mission is to use his ghostly-vampirey-werewolfy powers to find and punish his killer. And don't forget he's blind, too.
(heh heh heh!)

[lproven.livejournal.com]

I'm not even going to try NNWM this year. I do still have a Linux book to write!

As for the rest, you mad bugger, I might get back to you...

[lostcarpark.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, thanks, I think I know where I can fit that in.

[lostcarpark.livejournal.com]

Okay, that should be interesting. He could find challenging to control the leeks if he can't go outside, but that's just partof the character's personal tragedy. Thank you.

[lostcarpark.livejournal.com]

Ah, cool. For some reason I already had part of the novel set in Brighton.Could be a couple of interesting challencges to fit that in, but it will be there.

[lostcarpark.livejournal.com]

Yes, I can see how you might come up with that after Love Actually ("You know I love Christmas and I always will..."). Plenty of material there, thank you.

[lostcarpark.livejournal.com]

Aha, I have a race of garden faeries. I suspect that Renault is one of them... Thanks.

[lostcarpark.livejournal.com]

Oh, I like it. Could be a suspenseful scene that will keep the readers on the edges of their seats worrying about the kitten's welfare. Ta.

[lostcarpark.livejournal.com]

Oh, you are evil. Okay, I's shoe-horn the three of those in there somehow. No promises as to how.

[lostcarpark.livejournal.com]

I like that. Okay, there will be a character called Nick Razor who will want to be the lead character in a novel by James Shields. I make no promises as to whether he gets his wish. Thanks, whoever you are.

[terrysgirl333.livejournal.com]

Elizabeth Winter walked down the road to work. She was rearranging the kitchen cupboards, with the extra 'houseguests' the kitchen just wasn't working any more. It was amazing how much dogfood the werewolves used up. Just then a 4X4 with a yummy mummy and three schoolkids stopped, it was time to start.

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[(Anonymous)]

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[(Anonymous)]

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