By the third time he did this, he was probably on his 8th beer

14 November 2005

Shameless word-padding techniques to reach your 50,000 words (according to Joe):

  • Give your main character a theme song. Every time something important happens chuck that sucker in there. At 50-60 words a pop you've got an instant 300 words added to your novel.

The jig is up Joe. I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO!

And it's working. Joe is the only person I know that could make shit like that work.

Comments

Shame is so overrated. Theme songs, however, I can get behind. If you threw a party, invited everyone you knew, you would see the biggest gift would be from me and the card attached would say ...

Posted by Matt on November 14, 2005 5:32 PM:

Or you could have a character go crazy and pull a Shining moment:

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

Posted by Steve on November 14, 2005 6:45 PM:

The heroine is Punhyra, yes? It gives a certain rhyme to most everything.
You be good out there...and happy writing

Au revoir,

JC

Posted by Jason C on November 15, 2005 12:25 PM:

DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN HE IS A MAAAAAAAN

Posted by Joe on November 15, 2005 6:34 PM: