NaNo Pep Card: Day 10

[age.livejournal.com]

Wow, with the drama of earlier, I'm glad I didn't try and post today's card. The inability to post woul dhave irritated me to no end, and at a time when such irritation would have been most unhelpful.

So here we go!

A friend of mine, who is an EMT, says that people at restaurants choke more often than you imagine. According to him, the real danger isn't the choking, it's the bathroom. Because the moment people get a chicken wing lodged in their throats, they do a curious thing: They use the last of their oxygen to politely remove themselve to the bathroom, far away from anyone who might be able to help Heimlich it out.

If at any point you start having difficulty with your novel, the worst thing you can do is suffer silently. Complain in great detail to your support team and anyone else who will listen.

Curse your characters and their mothers. Crumple up this card and hurl it in the trash. Let the frustration out. You'll be surprised at how much clearer your writing vision is after a good venting.

Today's flashcard from the No Plot? No Problem! writing kit, the genius brainchild of Chris Baty.

...I know you're not supposed to refer to it as the Heimlich Manouver anymore, so you can tell how long ago these cards were written. (For the record, they're now to be called 'abdominal thrusts', according to the nice man who re-certified me for emergency first-aid and CPR two months ago.)

Just an FYI :)

And for the record? I vent my frustrations by taking them out on my protagonist. I managed to make her cry by novel's end last year. I'm mean ^.^

Comments

[walkertxkitty.livejournal.com]

I'm in a real jam on this one! I don't normally research as carefully as I would with a normal writing project but I try to stick with reality. Unfortunately, I ended up nearly killing my main character and it will take a miracle (literally) to get him back.

I HATE doing things like that. I wish I'd been more careful with him.

And the husband, who developed an attachment to the character, is really mad at me for almost killing him.

I find a high powered scream of frustration from the gut often helps in situations like these.

[mamasboo.livejournal.com]

Mom was a nurse and worked with Dr. Heimlich way back when. She says he once threw a scalpel at a nurse.

Why don't they call it the Heimlich anymore?

[celestialgldfsh.livejournal.com]

Funny that this is posted the day I'm struggling through scenes with my protagonist as an EMT. *spooky music plays*

[pinkpolarity.livejournal.com]

Abdominal thrusts? Am I the only person lol'ing about that particular name? /is twelve

[hendrikboom.livejournal.com]

Curse your characters and their mothers.

Actually, my characters formally declared a strike against the author a few days ago. It seems they figured out they were just characters in a book, and even though I was sitting back letting them so as they wished, they figured out that they could only do things that I was writing, and so I was the one who carried all the responsibility for their actions, and they went all philosophical on me after that.

I got 2000 words out of the strike!