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[apocalypsos]

I'm currently playing with my index cards plotting out The Walking Dead of Wilkes-Barre. I'm probably not going to start writing precisely at midnight, considering I plan on getting up and heading out to Starbucks or Borders to write tomorrow.

In any event, I think I'll do the same thing I did with The Monsters of Minooka. So, suggest me an everyday object and a line of dialogue and I'll try to put it in the story. ("Try" being the operative word ... I've used a few of the objects and a couple of lines from the ones people suggested for The Monsters of Minooka so far, but not all of them just yet.)

And if anybody wants a hint of what the story's about and missed it, here's my response to jrosestar's NaNo meme.

P.S. The Packers are winning against the Redskins at halftime, 17-7. I hate football, but c'mon, Packers. :)

EDIT: You know what I've discovered? That on an everyday basis, I can barely hold an intelligent conversation, but much like Banshee or Siryn, as soon as I open my mouth and start yelling, I display a superhuman ability. Except, you know, mine is that when I yell at a major league sports team, I suddenly know what the hell I'm talking about.

Hee. You shouldn't be allowed to complain about incomplete passes at a football game if you normally think an incomplete pass is what happens when someone accidentally tears their Metro ticket in half.

HORROR-MOVIE-WATCHING ROOMMATE OF EDIT: If there's one thing I've learned watching horror movies, it's that people stupid enough to leave gigantic butcher knifes in their kitchen under huge neon signs that say "MURDER WEAPON HERE!" deserve to be slaughtered.

WEIRD PLOT IDEA OF EDIT: I'm thinking of having one of the characters I suspect writes tons of slashy fanfiction be suffering from a severe case of plotbunnies ... literally. As if, the kind of infestation that requires an actual exterminator. It's meta and awfully lame, but still ... hee.

(By the way, isn't it sad that I suspect the character's writing slash fiction in his spare time, but I'm not actually sure? At the very least, I know he's writing something, because the idea of his constantly pulling tiny yammering bunnies out of his pockets at inopportune times is just too perfect.)

Comments

[miggy.livejournal.com]

Yes. C'mmmooooonnnnn, Packers.

[wenchamok.livejournal.com]

Hmmm.....

Everyday object: Hockey puck! :) (Damn it, I want my hockey season!!! Effin' NHL and players....grow up already!)

Dialogue: "Uh, [character name]...Deadline was an hour ago."

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Ooo, I could work with a hockey puck. The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre area has a Pens farm team. My dad's got season tickets. :)

[wenchamok.livejournal.com]

I knew there had to be some form of hockey up there..... :)

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah. People love the team up there, because it's only a few years old and the novelty still hasn't worn off yet. :)

[akacat]

Object: toaster.

Dialogue:
"I really, *really* hate green eggs and ham."
OR
"We're up an unsanitary tributary without means of propulsion."

[kinetikatrue]

A double-dip butter-brickle ice cream cone.

"That thing? On the overpass? It's not really a- " {speaker gets cut off by *insert thing of your choice here*]

[dorothywwom.livejournal.com]

YAY PACKERS!!!!

I put my reasons for cheering for them in my LJ.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Hee. Those are my reasons, too. :)

(And I live in Washington, sort of. This is some form of blasphemy, if I'm not mistaken.)

[doqz.livejournal.com]

No, that would be if your were rooting for Dallas.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Well, that's true. ;) (Although usually, if I have to pick a football team to root for, I do root for the Cowboys because they're my dad's favorite team, but like I said, I loathe football with the fires of a thousand exploding suns, so it's not like it really counts.)

I nearly got a lecture from a diehard Redskins fan of a co-worker the other day for saying I wanted the Redskins to lose, until I explained the whole presidential election thing. That's how you build conflict in other people's hearts. *eg*

[fmith.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'm currently on your flist under another name, but I've got this new journal that I'm using more. Since I'm all "OMGSEKRIT," I'm not going to say who this is. But I just wanted to let you know that I've added you under this new LJ, and you complimented my hot Bobby icon(s) on the old LJ. If you don't know who this is, that's cool too. Um. I should probably just shut up now.

[erinlin.livejournal.com]

I might have suggested this already. But it’s still funny.

A stapler

“There is no Vulcan death grip! Also, there is no spoon.”

[tinylegacies.livejournal.com]

Object: stuffed animal

Line: "Well, {insert name of stuffed animal here}, what do you think we should do?"


Also - Go Packers!

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

I need to be added to your friends-list to see the response. As I'm not, I'm answering this blind.

Object: A blank book, like a journal or something.

Dialogue: "This is the seventh time you've asked me that. The answer is still 'no.'"

[mystic-savage.livejournal.com]

Object: a toy dinosaur

Dialogue: "Is this a dagger I see before me?"

[drewbeartx.livejournal.com]

Object: a film canister full of quarters, like for laundry

Dialogue: "If I wanted it extra-crispy, I would have asked for extra-crispy. Now go back and try again."

[kassandra05.livejournal.com]

Everyday object: A Harry Potter bookmark.

Line: "And you said that skill would never come in handy." Hopefully with a fairly obvious tone of pride and mild indignation.

[muffytaj.livejournal.com]

You, my friend, need to get a rein over your characters.

Otherwise they're going to run even further away!

[juniper200.livejournal.com]

Object: An Ikea catalog

Line: "That's not a plan. That's just free association."

[myniamh.livejournal.com]

Now I have a mental image of someone's bulging pockets saying: "Oh My God! That'd be so cool!" and "OMG!SQUEEEE" in a muffled 'fast forward'ed voice.