You need to collaborate with some other ex-South African who did it normally. S/he will provide the info for normalness. You'll provide the writing skills and crazy humor.
(Roll about laughing helplessly.) Wednesday's viewpoint, the cats viewpoint maybe... but not Puggles or Roly viewpoints (must be a freer male dog thing). Roly viewpoint. "My dad is here, I had breakfast, snuffled about (love smells, the nastier the better) Ornamented the garden. Took black nose to visit dad. Helped him type. He seemed to be doing okay so I went to sleep. Went for a walkabout. Smelled things. Ornamented countriside. Dad likes me do this I know because he collects it. I love Dad. Barked. Got told to shut up. Came and got scratched. Helped Dad type. Went to sleep on Dad's feet. They smell so good! Went for a wonder about. Chased Pugsley. Went in to house at usual time and got fussed by Mom. She watched square box and read book. does not fuss me enough while this is happening. Mom and Dad went into the kitchen and made smells, nearly as good as nasty ones. They ate supper. Fed me supper. Sat with Mom again until bed time. Was taken out. Barked at Robin (go me, Hoooooof.) got told to shut up. went upstairs. Lay down on my
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I agree with people who say do it as fiction. But do it as a farce.
Set it in the world of What Rough Magic. A wizard and his family have to relocate to a new home, along with all their stuff. Which stuff includes a small menagerie of outre animals, and a somewhat larger collection of esoteric items; some of whom are animated, some sentient, and a few ensouled. The relocation dealing with not just the physical act of moving everybody and everything, but with the annoying, ludicrous, and even maddening regulations and ordinances encountered in various jurisdictions along the way.
Such as, say, an animated child's piggy bank, which according to one customs agent falls under his country's regulations regarding actual swine, ala O Henry's "Pigs is Pigs".
Exaggerate for comedic effect and think of it as a parody of any account you've ever read about somebody moving to a new home.
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(Make it truthful, er, "strange" enough, you might even be able to sell it to Toni as Contemporary Fantasy...)
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Set it in the world of What Rough Magic. A wizard and his family have to relocate to a new home, along with all their stuff. Which stuff includes a small menagerie of outre animals, and a somewhat larger collection of esoteric items; some of whom are animated, some sentient, and a few ensouled. The relocation dealing with not just the physical act of moving everybody and everything, but with the annoying, ludicrous, and even maddening regulations and ordinances encountered in various jurisdictions along the way.
Such as, say, an animated child's piggy bank, which according to one customs agent falls under his country's regulations regarding actual swine, ala O Henry's "Pigs is Pigs".
Exaggerate for comedic effect and think of it as a parody of any account you've ever read about somebody moving to a new home.
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