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[lostcarpark]

Word count continues to creep up. It's nowhere near as fast as I'd like, but hopefully I can pick up the pace as the month wears on. I've finished one chapter, and have started into a second, and I think there is a plot running through them. The chapters run through consecutive days, and I resisted the temptation to put a dream sequence between them, but I suspect it's only a matter of time...

Further down the road, I think I have something resembling an overall plan for the novel, though the ending still isn't as solid as I'd like.

Oh, and if anyone can suggest interesting ways of getting into trouble (or getting someone else into trouble) at school, it would be a big help.

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[davesangel.livejournal.com]

Getting in trouble at school? I can think of a fair few ways, not that I did them - observation of the scum I went to school with. Namely: attack your teacher, scream abuse at him/her, stealing the miniature Jesus from the Christmas crib, stealing equipment (no matter how big), stealling a cardboard Mr Darcy from the English department (well they had a bit of taste there!), offering to wash the teachers' cars with brillo pads or with diluted bleach, writing obscene graffitti on walls and signing it from somone else, bringing cannabis into school, sitting and drinking vodka from a coke bottle during lessons...the list goes on :D

[purple-peril.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, THAT's why I gave up teaching :)

[lostcarpark.livejournal.com]

Those are all good, and I'm likely to steal a few, and I'll keep this post around in ever case I ever get the urge to become a teacher. However, what I'm really looking for is ways that a bright but absentminded student who's trying but having problems might get into trouble without intending to.

[purple-peril.livejournal.com]

Dropping a pot of strawberry yoghurt down the central stairwell from the top floor. That was a good one.

[lostcarpark.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's fun!

[etherealfionna.livejournal.com]

One of my colleagues just came out with a good school story, in the "mildly in trouble" way.

The whole class was acting up, and the teacher said that that was it, the next person who so much as wiggled their ears was going to the principal. So my colleague stuck his hand up and asked "What if you can't wiggle your ears?" and was promptly thrown out.

[lostcarpark.livejournal.com]

Thank you - that's definitely one I can use.