Fire_Guardian_EU

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O NO PVP IN A PVP ZONE SOMEBODY CALL THE INTERNETS POLICE

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You mis-spelled the word "teh" there, Xan.

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What travel power are you giving NaMaDraMo Rabbi?

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The travel power I'm giving Maximillian is Superspeed, the same one the character himself has.

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Great, but what about the Rabbi you're drawing?
And before you start (yes, boys and girls, at the time I'm writing this, Max and I are discussing the Rabbinicality of the character he's drawing) might I move your attention to:


Exhibit A
Exhibit B
Exhibit C

Also, since this character has never been identified as Max (although I'm sure there's a post from you forthcoming about this) and Max is, as you say, not a Rabbi, doesn't that mean that by virtue of the fact that I'm always right mean that this character IS one? After all, you wouldn't want it known that you don't want to draw a strong Jewish superhero, right? People might make the connection between that and all the times you've cited Godwin's Law, and come up with the wrong impression.

War is bad and peace is good!

Now, as for what's going on...Clockwork are, to all intents and purposes, Golems. Although clearly not the clay Golems which appeared in Hebrew mythology, they fall under the definition of autonomous constructs which do the biddings of their master. Their master is a Super Villain, and all Super Villains want to take over the world, and be worshipped, therefore, as the Supreme Ruler. However, there can only be one Supreme Being, so the Rabbi in that picture is clearly following the First Commandment.

Don't believe me? Let's take a closer look:

Level One
Level Two
Level Three
Level Four

Thank you, and good night!

What travel power are you giving NaMaDraMo Rabbi?

Heheheheheheheheh. Bewbies.

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What strange song is whistled late at night when everyone else is asleep?

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Quite obviously, it's "Show me the way to go home". Or perhaps even "Jailhouse Rock".

Revenge of The Rabbi!

My excerpt is up. It's the prologue for my story, called "Lone Wolf". Don't let the title fool you, though, as you'll be able to tell from the prologue, it's actually a highbrow comedy with some fart jokes thrown in.

In case anyone's wondering, my username is "Borlath".

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Head of MI5 I remember reading somewhere traditionally was referred to by one letter.
For some reason I think it's "C", or possibly "M" but that might be James Bond corrupting it...

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Sure, except Bond works for MI6.

"Say, I hear you're writing in NaNoWriMo"
"Yup. Me and my friends are all taking part."
"Really, what's their usernames?"
"Well, it's a funny thing, because they're using strange names, to differentiate themselves from anyone else."
"Okay?"
"So, Who's writing Science Fiction, What's writing Fantasy, I Don't Know's on Erotica."
"You say they're your friends?"
"Yes."
"You say you know their names?"
"Yes."
"So, how are they calling themselves?"
"Who's writing Science Fiction, What's writing Fantasy, I Don't Know's on Erotica."
"Who's writing fantasy?"
"No, Who's writing Science Fiction."
"I'm not asking who's writing science fiction, I don't know the guy's name writing Fantasy."
"No, he's writing Erotica, we're not talking about him."

Mine's called "randomous.wps"

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Mine is called Future's End. Completely unoriginal, I know, but I swear it doesn't involve any time travel whatsoever. At all.

There will be a great deal of satanic themed politics in it (at least that's the plan).

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Does it involve a planetoid with a large sealed pit, under which is Satan himself? Things are fine, until a Rather Intelligent man and a Chavette show up in a blue box and unwittingly help to set him free?

Sounds like oodles of fun.

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I'd rather read Anne Rice than Dan Brown.

*shudder*
I feel all dirty and tainted now...

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If it makes you feel any better, Big Z, I've never been able to finish an Anne Rice book. No matter how hard I try, I just can't eat a whole one.

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In other words, Laurell K. Hamilton's work, IKEA assembly instructions, in Swedish AND badly written, purple prose flooded fanfiction which is all written in the present tense and created by somebody who doesn't understand the basics of grammatical rules - but is still egotistical enough to not care, or too stupid to grasp them, is (or rather, are) a refreshing read compared to Dan Brown's.

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Edited for Accuracy.

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Times two!

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Times to infinity....AND BEYOND!

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In other words, IKEA assembly instructions, in Swedish, is a refreshing read compared to Dan Brown's.

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Edited for Accuracy.

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Dan Brown uses Plot By Numbers. The thought of originality has never occured to him.

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Did you read that in one of his books?

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As a matter of fact, I've read all his books, and I think I've uncovered a conspiracy, which although stretches back centuries and is ridiculously overcomplicated, I'll explain it in book-form, using small, easy to read chapters, where the protagonist will invariably smack his, or her, forehead and shout "It's so SIMPLE! How did I miss it?!" over and over, at least once every alternating chapter. My only challenge is, do I create a male lead, who will, of course, be studious and proud, or a female main character who will be described at least once as "Einstein's IQ in a fitness models' body". It makes no difference, whichever I choose, the last chapter will end on the lead having sex with their opposite number.

Dan Brown uses Plot By Numbers. The thought of originality has never occured to him.

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However, 100 pages of story could spread things a bit thin, to the point of: "He looked at the wall. It was very flat, the wall. Flat and smooth. Flat and smooth like all walls should be."

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Do what the American novelists do, and pad. Pad like your life depended on it!

I've said it before, and I'll re-iterate it here.

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John decided to have an early night. He got up from his chair, walked to the TV and turned it off. Then he went to the wall fixture and flicked the lights off. Walking to his stairwell, he ascended the steps, all eighteen of them, and turned left to his bedroom. Opening the door, he went to his en suite bathroom, and, after turning on the light, grabbed his toothbrush. He put the toothpaste on the brush (it wasn't his favourite brand, but the store was out of that) and brushed first up and down, and then side to side, making sure he covered every square millimetre. After spitting out the toothpaste, he rinsed his mouth with mouthwash (again, not his favourite, but what can you do?) and shuffled back to his bedroom. Stripping down to his boxers - the grey silk ones an old girlfriend had bought him, he nestled himself under the covers, turned off the light, and tried to sleep. However, sleep did not come easily to him, and after an hour of staring up at his white ceiling fixtures, illuminated by the security lights of the house across the way, and his own thin curtains, decided to get a drink. He got out of bed, and made his way out of his bedroom, turning right. After going down all of the eighteen steps, walked to his kitchen...

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John decided to have an early night, but sleep did not come easy for him.

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Quite a difference there. Americans love that stuff, the minutae of the day, as I think it helps them get more sympathetic to the characters. However, it's garbage. Pointless twaddle that does nothing to advance the story.

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Alraedy had to tell FG off

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Correction, sir, you "told me off" when you were under the impression that I listened to Stasis when she told me to put Dark Mirror up, which already HAS about 40,000 words. Since that isn't what I'm doing...nyeeeeer.

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wouldn't that be plagerism though :-P

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Firstly, get out of Stasis' head. That's exactly what she said.
Secondly, nope. Far as I know, that three hour joke I love to tell is public domain. Besides, why would I want to copy it down from memory, when I can just write my own stuff?

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Can I write one word 50,000 times?
No. Well... No.

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Hmm. Okay. What if I write the entire "(number) bottles of beer on the wall" song, starting from 1,923?

"X bottles of beer on the wall. X bottles of beer. You take one down, and pass it around, X(-1) bottles of beer on the wall."

Starting from 1,923, that gives me exactly 50,000 words. Or, I could just write all of Purple Flower. That'll give me a couple of hundred thousand words right there!

I could write 50,000 words in under a day.

The word "A" written fifty thousand times over counts, yes?

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Do it! for the giggle!

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Yes! Especially with the serpent analogies. Write a chick lit romance/erotica based on two people crossing a desert.

His Snake On The Plains.

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50,000 words in a month works out at 1700 a day, which is a lot...

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Naaaah. It's only, what? 2.5, 2.6 pages a day. Of course, once you get into that groove, you'll do a large stretch of wordage. Back in '99, I did 30 pages in a week...and that was when I had a deadline of six months.

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I'd enter, but short stories are more my thing, not hulking big 50k word behemoths.

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Ahh, but if you wrote a series of short stories, all with the same characters, but using a different character as the lead each time, over the same period (telling the same story from different perspectives) then edit them to mix them all up, I'm willing to bet that it'd add up to 50,000.

I'm not starting any notes until November 1st - simply because that's going to be more fun, at least for me. I know a few people are putting their notes together now, and fair play to them. However, to me, "writing a novel in a month" means going through the entire process, including note making. The fact that my character bibles usually take 2-3 pages of A4 per character, and the synopsis takes between 10-20 pages, then the timeline can take an extra page or so (depending on what's going on - Bloodlines took four pages just for the timeline) is neither here nor there. However, anyone watching out for me (Coin) will expect to see nothing for the first week or so, and then a mad flurry of words for the last three. Plus, since I'm still waiting on my new PC, and I'm stuck on the laptop, with its' tiny tiny hard-drive...

No movies.
No music.
No games.
No job.
No money.
Plenty of time.

I've got a basic idea for a story in my head -it's going to be an interesting change for me, as it's not a genre I've tried properly before. It'll be a challenge for me to write, but since this is a new thing for me, might as well try a new genre.

I'm not afraid!