NaNo snippets

[smeddley]

“What… where am I?”

“Aboard the good ship Prettywink, where else? She’s the best pirate ship to sail the fairy seas! Now, quick, thing of a skill that’ll be useful, or it’ll be the plank for you!”
* * * * * *
“Either get us more, or we’ll be forced to… well, we’ll consider you working against us,” the squirrel says, and his high-pitched voice has a surprising undercurrent of menace. It is like the mafia on helium.
* * * * * *
She shrugs. “I have no idea. Without sufficient caffeine, my brain just refuses to function. Ooooh, look, it is a Starbucks!”
* * * * * *
In NaNo news, I've broken 30,000 words! I went back and did a mass replacement of all the contractions I could find with their respective two-word sets. Except can't, don't and didn't. Those just sound better as contractions. Unless I'm really cutting it fine on Friday, then every contraction is fair game...

Comments

[gelsey.livejournal.com]

<3

[penchaft.livejournal.com]

If you still need words at the end, you could have the character arrive in a meta universe where they can see parts of the outline... ;)

[cdpeck.livejournal.com]

Prettywink!?

[smeddley.livejournal.com]

What, you expect me to come up with fairy names ON MY OWN?! Also, you have an opportunity, in this story, to do dust. I recommend you do...