Three things that happen when I get bored during NaNo

[charamei]

#3: Mario Kart Wii

And attendant Nintendo Thumb. Owie.

#2: Worldbuilding (wrong novel)

#1: Time Lords

The Master flat-out refused to get the bus and instead got them a cab, somehow. Judging by the cabbie's glazed expression, the Doctor suspected that hypnotism was probably involved, but on balance, it was probably best if he didn't know.

They passed the cab ride in a silence that would have been unusually amiable, if not for the nervousness, with both of them studiously avoiding glancing up at the dark shape n the sky, and just as carefully not asking the obvious question.

The Master drummed his fingers on the windowsill. The Doctor shuffled his feet and cleared his throat a lot. Their hynotised cabbie paid them no mind, which was a relief in many ways.

Why did primitive vehicles have to be so slow?

The Master snapped first, pointing at a car as it sped past them. "Red."

The Doctor looked down at his seatbelt. "Not red."

"Red." The roof of a MacDonald's at the side of the road.

"Not red." The sky.

"Red." The Doctor's shoes.

"Not red." The grass at the side of the road.

The Master eyed him. "That's the lawn, I hope, and not an arbitrarily-chosen blade of grass so you can name each one individually."

"There's not as much point in pulling that trick when the grass isn't red."

The Master hmphed. "Nothing's red on this planet, is it?"

"Giving up already?"

The glare he got had destroyed civilisations. "No. Red."

The Doctor peered out of the window at the fuel truck as it drove by. "That's orange."

"Is not. Red."

"Is too. Orange, plain as day. Which," he added, "is also orange."

"It reflects red light. Therefore it is red."

"Orange light is not red light."

By the time they pulled up outside the airport, they were no longer talking to one another again.

Comments

[whatawaytoburn]

You have a Wii! Can you give me game recs? My mother randomly bought one and I want to take advantage of it while I'm here.

Also? The last thing makes me giggle more than it should. I blame Dayquil.

[charamei]

I'm afraid I don't have recs - my dad also randomly bought the Wii about two days ago because there's some dance game his girlfriend wants him to play, so I went out and bought Mario Kart because I like it. It's the only Wii game I've ever played, and is likely to stay that way (I'm not much of a video gamer).

I've seen Mario Galaxies and the Legend of Zelda games played on it, and they looked fun - try them? Also whichever Star Wars game it is that lets you use the controller as a lightsaber.

The last thing is partly based on something humble_yoghurt invented called Green/Not Green XD Arguments about whether each individual blade of grass/leaf on a bush counts separately are almost guaranteed when playing outside. Or near a window. Or, well, anywhere with a hint of plantlife...

[whatawaytoburn]

Why are parents odd? Seriously, I'm pretty sure my mother just bought it on a whim because there was a dance game she wanted or possibly the bowling game. *sighs* Odd, odd people.

I might give them a try. I'm not much of a gamer myself, I just want new and fun ways to procrastinate on all the other things I should be doing. *eyes NaNo warily*

XD That's awesome and weirdly tempting to play with a group of people, especially people who enjoy debate.

[charamei]

Parents are very odd. Without getting too much into the details, my dad's been complaining for months now that he's broke and just barely not in debt each month, so I don't entirely follow the logic train that led to 'buy a new TV and a games console'. Possibly sex is involved? I tend to be oblivious to motives involving sex.

Procrastination is important! Without it, I might not be 2,000 words behind... er... *cough* More Time Lords are required to make up this deficit, methinks.

(I did work out a way to turn the whole thing into a Whofic, if it gets any more dull. But I'd rather not, since the basic idea is publishable if only I can make it work, and editing the Doctor out would be a hell of a lot harder than writing him in.)

It's a fun game, and very easy to start as long as everyone around you knows that the correct response when somebody points at something and says, "Green!" is to find something not green. At this point my group is fairly well-trained to random outbursts of it, although we did get some odd looks going through airport security on our way to GenCon. (Protip: don't point at people in airports. Ever. Even if it's just to announce the colour of their shirt.)

[whatawaytoburn]

Oh good, my mother isn't the only one who does that. *sighs* She complains and monas that she doesn't have any money and that she has to move out but then she orders a bunch of random things off the TV that she doesn't actually need and just...Ugh, I do not understand.

Oh sex. Sex is peculiar, that's all I'm saying on the matter. Just...it is odd and I do not entirely understand it.

More Time Lords are always required. >> They are like chocolate, you can never have enough.

(At least you have options? You could work on both versions and see which one looks like it'll work out.)

.Man, playing that game in public seems like it would be so much fun. I want to do it at bus stops and in grocery stores and other random places. I am going to have to spread this game around and see if I can get my cohorts to play.

[charamei]

People who buy things off the telly also make no sense, but then, I almost never watch TV channels that have adverts (yay BBC!), so maybe they're more persuasive than I give them credit for. I'unno.

Sex is peculiar, I quite agree.

Time Lords it is. I'm bored and I've written 1k of this stupid novel already today... 667+ of something Time Lordy will keep me on track to win NaNo without compromising my sanity. Maybe. I guess it's First Steps then because it's not as if I say THAT every other week or so.

(Mmmaaaaybe. I know where that train of thought goes, though, and it's not anywhere good. Probably best to write it this way at first, and see if I feel like salvaging it after. I just know my dad will have another needle at me if I don't actually finish the novel I'm writing this year.)

Do it! Let the game begin! At least you can't lose this one by thinking of it.

[whatawaytoburn]

They're not trust me. I've watched I've tried to understand the psychology behind it, I don't.

Oh good I love finding like-minded people.

Sanity and NaNo don't normally go hand in hand though if you manage to keep yours I cheer you on greatly. I keep meaning to switch projects for a little while to give my brain a break from this novel I just keep getting distracted by podcasts.

(Pfft there's reason my mother doens't know that I'm doing NaNo. I'd never hear the end of it and it wound end in me wanting to throttle her. My mother = my vampire. >>)

I sort of want to find a way to incooperate the game into my NaNo just for tthe hell of it. Maybe it would give me enough motivation to start on my words for the day.

[charamei]

XD Hi, my name's charamei and I'm asexual. And mostly aromantic. And I want babies. I may well end up mothering either the Antichrist or the Second Coming, via a turkey baster of course.

Sanity and NaNo have gone together worse... I'm not into this one enough to care, let alone get plot flashes. Compare this with the thing in #2, which came to me in a bolt from the blue about three weeks ago and has already got a beginning, an end, two antagonists with believable, even pitiable backstories, two heroes, a Designated Love Interest (he still needs fleshing out a bit...) and a map.

(I didn't exactly mean to tell my dad this year, but he knows I've done it before and he's quick enough to guess that if I'm typing manically in a corner every chance I have, in November, I must be doing that wacky Following My Heart thing again. I can't wait to move out, my productivity will increase tenfold...)

Doooo iiiiit XD Maybe Mr Ian Woon can play a game or two?