Just add ninjas

Because they're adorable

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So, I just read the first Nanowrimo peptalk, and it quoted the wise ol’ Nano-saying, “When in doubt, just add ninjas”

I’m not entirely sure if this really is a Nano-saying. It sounds like one, though. It also sounds like a lot of fun. I found myself kind of wishing that I could do that. I’m a planner, you see. I always know what I’m going to write, and where it’s headed. Not that I don’t love my stories. Of course I do. I’m not even sure I would ever reach the 50,000 words without planning ahead. And yet, just for once I’d like to start Nano with no idea of pacing or fleshed out characters or, indeed, a storyline.

And then add ninjas. Just because I can.

I do have a soft spot for Doctors.

That being said, I did sort of surprise myself yesterday, adding a brand new character that I had thought up just fifteen minutes before, when I was in the shower (there’s something about running water that makes my story ideas flow!) This new dude – Doctor Cormack’s his name – is the kind of charming nice guy that makes you wonder what the hell he’s doing, walking around that shady institution that performs medical experiments on parentless children. I’m not altogether sure if he genuinely nice, or that he’s in fact the creepiest of the whole bloody lot.

Heck. He might even be a ninja :-)