Autumn and hoarfrost

If you are interested about those dares I might use while writing my NaNo, then you might want to glance through this. Otherwise, feel free to skip it.

Have a character sing “If You’re Happy And You Know It” during a really serious moment in the novel.

Have the title of every chapter be a song title from a band of your choosing. The fun part is making what happens in the chapter relevant to the chapter title!

Have a character who finishes every sentence with “…according to the prophecy.”

“You built THAT in your room?”
“I could hardly build it in the kitchen, could I?”

Include a ghost that isn’t unfriendly, isn’t particularly friendly either, doesn’t communicate much with the living, and just generally tolerates the people living in his house.
BP if he turns on the radio, just because he likes music
DBP if he takes occasional showers
TBP if the people living in his house (or place or whatever) know about him, and just say “Oh yeah, that was the ghost” like it’s nothing weird

Write one whole chapter in the form of text message conversation

Include a character who always knows what’s going to happen next
BP if no one thinks this is weird
DBP if no one listens anyway
TBP and a sprinkled donut if later, when the person turns out to be right, they point it out and no one believes them.

Have a character who is always trying to convince everyone that he/she is really a robot.

-Make one of your major characters a human thesaurus.
Bonus Points: If the other characters use his talents frequently throughout the story.
Double Bonus Points: If they ask him/her synonyms for really stupid or impossible things (especially articles like “the” and “an”) or ask for antonyms for things that don’t have any (like names, places, or technical terms).
Triple Bonus Points: If they ask for an alternate word in the middle of a climax or dramatic soliloquy.

“That’s what she said.”
–BP if a character says this as often as possible.
—DBP if they say this to totally random lines of dialogue.
—-TBP if another character finally has an outburst and shouts “SHE DIDN’T SAY THAT!”
—–QBP AND A COOKIE if the “that’s what she said” character responds to this by saying that yes, she did say that, it was recently brought up by Sarah Palin in the political debates.

Have a character who is always reading. Always
–BP if they run into stuff
–DBP if that’s how they meet your main character
–TBP if it IS the main character
–QBP if it is the villian.

Have a character who is constantly, in every scene he/she is in, playing a video game
–Bonus if the game is Tetris
—Double bonus if this is during a battle scene
—Triple bonus if, by playing the video game, the character is unwittingly controlling the characters around him/her

DBP=if one of them is also a ghost

TBP=if set in a haunted house or haunted theater

Involve The Game somewhere in your novel…

Have a group of your characters get severely lost in a bus system.
Bonus points if this is late at night.
Double bonus if it’s because the subways already closed, and they were forced to take a bus.

Have two characters hold a conversation while sitting in a tree

Dare: Have a character who always carries a towel with him/her.
BP: It’s an MC
DBP: The character is hitchhiking at some point in the novel
TBP: It’s vital to the plot
QBP: The towel’s blue
Two Plates of Cookies and three Cakes: The character has read Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

Have a character talk in another language in their sleep.
BP – if they don’t know that language when awake.

Have a character who is building a wall out of a random object (in my case it was anvils, but go wild)
BP if this wall is important to the plot
DBP if this character isn’t an MC
TBP if this character only appears at random moments to steal above-mentioned random item

At least once every chapter, take a book from your shelf and turn to a random page. Insert the first piece of dialogue you see into your novel. You can remove or substitute for names, but bonus points if you don’t.

I dare you to use at least one dare from this thread per chapter in your novel. (Dares like use ‘10′ ten times per chapter do not count for fulfilling this dare)
— double bonus points if you end up using 30 or more dares
— — triple bonus points if you don’t edit any of them out
— — — quadruple bonus points and a cookie if they don’t seem out of place in your novel.

- Get random people (your sister, workmate, the guy who sits next to you in class or lives next door) to name your chapters for you randomly.

Line: “I’m as dead as I want to be.”
*Bonus points if the character actually is dead.