Smile, you son of a...

[strangecreature]

Well! For the first time since grade four, I believe I have discovered a book that I may not finish because it is too damn scary for me to handle.

Has anyone read or heard of The Raw Shark Texts, by Stephen Hall? Is this another one of those cult-following books that everybody in the world knows about but me, perhaps? (I'm less than 100 pages in

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[thunder_nari]

...I absolutely have to read that book... *eyes widen*

So what are you writing for nano??

[strangecreature]

It really is conceptually awesome and all kinds of clever. Not to mention available in paperback. *g* I'd totally recommend it, despite the eek-factor.

Ahahaha. I will be writing about a starving writer who is madly trying to get something published in between bouts of Real Life. This is my very sneaky way of being able to write poetry and short stories within the actual NaNo story if the other bit doesn't give me enough plot to play with. Genius, I tell you! ;-) (Are you going to be playing too? *hop-hop*)

[thunder_nari]

I'll have to see if I can find it. I need some new reading material. :D

Hahah. I hope you plan on posting bits as you go. Or after. Or just sometime. I want to play... I do every year but I'm gone for the middle of November so I only have 12 days to really work on it. Still gonna try. But with something cracky. Currently thinking a Supernatural/Dr. Horrible crossover. ;) Complete with short stories on the origins on the members of the Evil League of Evil.

[chlare]

Bwhaahaha thank you so much for that bit of laughter this evening. :D (Oh, god, thanks for reminding me I never got to read your Nano article!)

[strangecreature]

Always a pleasure! Hey, wait a minute... Don't mock my fear! X-D (That one's nothing special, but the real life/online life collision it's inadvertently created is certainly new. *g*)

[chlare]

Not your fear, I totally get that. :D But the image of your spouting off the blowjob line? Priceless. :D

...I should try Nano, but...I don't have stories in me. Just short little blips. Hrm. I would probably spend half the month trying to outline. :D

[strangecreature]

Oh man, there was a terribly awkward pause the first time someone asked me, during which my eyes got very wide, because at that point the only thing that I knew I wanted to include was a gay relationship with an inappropriate age difference. X-D

Start small! 10,000 words of rambling! Plot continuity and consistent character traits need not apply! *G*

[apiphile]

You know what's even more terrifying, though? NaNo begins in one week!

RAWR SHUT UP SHUT UP.

[strangecreature]

Hey, if I have to break out in random cold sweats over this, I'm bringin' everybody down with me. *G*

[apiphile]

I CAN KILL YOU WITH THE POWER OF MY PANICKY CAPSLOCK, M. I REALLY FUCKING CAN.

[strangecreature]

And then I'll have a whole different kind of 'plot' to fuss over, eh?