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17th Oct 2013 at 9:40 PM
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.. hmmm... I have been interested in NaNoWriMo for years but have never participated. My lack of participation in the past was lazyness (mostly) and the fact that November is often very busy for me.. I have several 'book' outlines on the back shelf waiting to be filled out with content.
A fun one to work on would be a light hearted romp about a Texan who went to Ireland and got suckered into buying a rare Pooka horse hide rug. Pookas are immortal Irish Fae creatures who shift between Horse and Human shape. This Pooka wanted revenge on the Texan because he was a direct descendant of Fin MacCool who had shamed him centuries before by riding upon his back and surviving and who had extracted promises. The other Pookas ridiculed him. This humiliated Pooka sought revenge for his humiliation but Fin's descendants had emmigrated and were no longer in Ireland. With the 'help' of his brother, the Pooka shifted into rug form on the spur of the moment while his brother 'sold' the rare rug to the Texan.
So the Texan brought the rug home and put it on the floor in front of the fireplace - In old Irish culture, a place by the fire was a place of honor for visitors. So the Pooka relaxed and plotted. Soon the Texan's liberal minded daughter came home from university and was presented with the rug as a present. Of course, she was somewhat aghast at a horse hide rug and felt bad for the horse. She also could not let her dad know how she felt because she didn't want to hurt his feelings.
It goes on with scenes of the Texans various family members and switching to the Pook's viewpoint and plotting. Once the Pooka learned who was who and had plotted his revenge he tried to shift his shape and found out he was stuck. The trick was on the Pooka in this case because once he shifted into rug form, he couldn't shift out of it on his own.
Anyway, there is a lot more that I had fleshed out a few years ago and then set aside.... I can work on that, I guess.
Any proofreading volunteers?
(I'll have to get out the typo checker.)
I signed up to be a writing buddy of you Phae but it says you're my writing buddy.. so not quite sure how to set that up. (It might help if I gave it 100% attention.
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http://nanowrimo.org/participants/porkypine/buddies Sign up if you want to read/opinionate on this bit of Pooka silliness..