I have officially set October 15th, the halfway point(ish) of the month as when I will panic if I don’t have a firm story in mind for National Novel Writing Month.
October 15th is three days from now. I’m sure I’ll have an idea. Oh yes.
To help prepare the way I have added the word count widget from the NaNoWriMo site to the blog. Come November 1st it will start tracking on a daily basis my stupendous output on the quest to completing a 50,000 word mini-opus.
Should I find myself in the unthinkable position of not having a plot ready to go, here are three I grabbed from a plot generator site, each lending itself to literary greatness:
One evening, a widow and a strange boy try to find a game possessed by the spirit of a boy after playing with a disturbing puppet.
One day, a young widow and a lost widow transform a widower into the heart of a mental patient. [this generator really likes widows]
A barking dentist takes over the world under the bed and discovers another world.
I kind of like the last one, at least the “discovers another world” part, though perhaps if the barking dentist were a dog that would add another unexpected twist.
These were culled from the Springhole.net plot generator site. As with most generators the results are silly but can provide a spark. Especially if you like widows.
