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maartje

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Oct 29, 2006 14:43

I am pretty proud of myself today ( Read more... )

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yunage October 29 2006, 19:59:34 UTC

I look forward to reading more of your work. I'm swamped for November though, so I can't participate in anything. I am joining NaPoeWriMo again for Januari, why don't you join them too? It's Jakebe's little project.

maartje October 29 2006, 20:08:14 UTC

I'm not much of a poet, at least, I haven't done much poetry since my angsty teens. I think my poetry will probably suck. Bowling balls through drinking straws. But let me think on it.

yunage October 29 2006, 20:53:34 UTC

Emotions get a bad rap. Those 50-word stories can be kinda auto-poetic? Compressing any kind of text by use of allegory and wit is poetry in my book.

zencadet October 30 2006, 01:36:34 UTC

About this time last year, quite coincidentally to NaNoWriMo I started writing my novel. I took a whole week off work in which I made a step forward in getting the novel started. It was supposed to be a quick project, bang out the novel and submit it to publishers... a year later I'm only about a third to half way through the novel. Well above 33,000 words, but still with a hell of a lot of story to cover ( ... )

maartje October 30 2006, 10:04:13 UTC

This is what I had in mind: the main character, a guinnea pig, is in a control group. He is not tested at all, has all the food he could want, and is pretty much happy. He is convinced he and his family (the guinnea pigs he shares a cage with) are special. The other guinnea pigs, look exactly like him, sound like him, are basically the same (test animals are as uniform as possible in order to have reliable tests), but they are being tested. The main character thinks that these animals probably did something to deserve it. So when some animal activists liberate all the guinnea pigs, they destroy his comfortable world.

He is too confused to make it to the door in time and is stuck on the loose in the lab. He meets a couple of rats who got away a year before and are now living inside the walls of the lab. They were being tested, so now the main character has to figure out whether he trusts these unknown animal who freely admit they are 'bad' (in his view) and what he should do with the rest of his life.