Richardderus/Mudge the Expendable writes a 2012 comedy/creepy NaNovel!

ETA: I've decided on a working title...Curse of the Bride of Frankenstein! It seems appropriately Fifties-cheesy-B-movie to me.

The idea is this:

A Taylor Swift/Adele mashup pop star with a New Orleans past has a horrible breakup with her boyfriend and her BFF on the same day. Because she found them in bed making wild, hot monkey sex. But she doesn't tell them right away. She has to think of a suitable revenge.

Her soon-to-be-ex husband is a mildly famous actor who just landed the role of Frankenstein in a new big-budget version supposed to be faithful to the book.

Which he's never read. In fact, he's never read any books since The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories when he was nine. What to do? Consult his wife's well-read book-ghost BFF! What could be easier, they're in the same house all the time anyway!

Oh dear.

It starts with a desperate plea, it builds with a gift of a graphic novel, and it ends in bed, both men having found--to their mutual astonishment--that their mutual love of HER leads, after some initial bumps and fights, to falling in love with each other. Resistance is futile, the stress of a celebrity marriage compounded with the constant togetherness of working on the actor's performance, added to the mayhem on the film set....

And then comes HER revenge: She curses her husband to dream and dream and dream the original story of Frankenstein until he is helpless and dangerously loopy from lack of sleep. Will he, or someone, ANYONE, figure out how to lift the curse he doesn't know he's under? Can anyone predict that, unless this man who thinks reading a whole comic book is too much reading for one day reads the original text of Frankenstein, he might actually for real die like the monster?

Guess who isn't telling.

Sounds like fun! Enjoy the writing!

Thanks! It has some possibilities for Frankenhumor that I'm looking forward to getting into.

I like it! And it does sound like it will be a lot of fun to write! I just wish I could think up original and fun plots like that!

Curse of the Bride of Frankenstein is what I decided to call it. I like the Franco-Prussian War books! It's really underexplored as a backdrop.

Heh. I also wish I could write humor.

Thanks, that time period (Franco-Prussian War) has a lot of really interesting possibilities. I'm going to include a couple of interesting but not well-known historical figures in the novel, and also, as a plot device/prop, early photography.

That sounds wonderful!

Motivation!

Not long now! (I'll take the one on the right for my personal cheerleader, thanks.)

Ooo, Mark Ruffalo! Good choice!

I'm gettin' geared up. I hope this one'll be funfunfun!

I completely lost track of time and almost missed the Kick-Off Party for the L.A. NaNo group, which is on Sunday at a Mexican restaurant not far from my apartment. We've partied there before, on the outdoors patio, which is great because the weather's supposed to be fine this weekend! Other than being ready for the Kick-Off Party, I am totally unprepared to start NaNoing next week. o-0

Just in time for Halloween and NaNo, we're gettin' a hurricane! Whee!

Oh, ouch! I hope it loses its strength as it heads north so when it arrives in your necka it's nothing more than a little breeze. But, if it doesn't, I hope the electricity stays on so you can be working on your novel while you hunker down.

Priorities. ;)

>14 Storeetllr: From your keyboard to the goddess' inbox.

>8 richardderus: Mark Ruffalo, nom nom!
If he asked nicely, he could get me to do near anything. :)
Now git RD, git writing!

>16 LovingLit: Heh...I will, but not until 12:01am EDT on 1 November...they's rules to this h'yar game!

Hmmm I may have to steal the motivation... Am having last minute jelly belly about the whole idea!

That's what pretty mens is for, dearie! Steal away.

I love that poster! Great incentive. Thanks.

Sandy woes have kept me to a measly rotten 7344 words so far. Hiss boo hiss.

*waves pom poms for Richard*

It's okay - soon you'll be all powered up and leave the rest of us in the dust.

You're still way ahead of me. Keep up the good work!

URGH

After a shorter-than-needed morning write, I'm at 9701 words. Can not do one more.

Need to pace at 1750 to finish on time. I don't know that it will happen.

that isn't much more than the normal minimum for a day! You can do it!

Thanks for the pep! I'm trying. Still trying.

Go for it, RD. I really really want to read your 2012 NaNo novel.

10,109 as of this morning.

Working.

Woo Hoo!