Both Jerry and I will be participating, so feel free to follow us on the Nanowrimo website under the user names JJDavis and MMFletcher, respectively.
And for those of you participating in Nanowrimo, remember -- give yourself permission to write crap. You can always edit it later.
Now let's get started!
Have you ever read or watched a movie/TV adaptation of Jane Austen's works, and been overwhelmed by a sudden, driving urge to bitchslap half the characters?
I'm not talking about a gentle lovetap, either. I mean a wholehearted NEED to climb into the story and start smacking Emma, Anne Eliot (I just watched the 1995 production of PERSUASION and Anne spends the bulk of the movie cringing into her scarf or looking like a deer in the headlights) or Mrs. Bennet about the earhole, then give Fitzwilliam Darcy a kick in the ass for good measure.
I thought so. And yes, I know the books are supposed to be satirical and the characters are sometimes melodramatized for effect -- I was an English major, after all. But Jesus they rub me the wrong way.
