Monday, August 23, 2010

The Great American Novel

The other day, I put up my facebook status as the following:

"I'm going to write the Great American Novel. Ready... Go."

Now this was just musing on my part. Someone had just told me that I ought to write a book, so I was just fooling around on facebook, so I decided to share my newfound goal on the internets.

This is what occurred in the form of comments below my status within the next few days:


  • Deborah ‎'It was a dark and stormy night....'
    August 18 at 11:27pm · ·
  • Carole The gleaming moonlight and the peaceful feeling that surrounded Erin in no way prepared her for the shocking events that were going to slam into her once she turned the corner......
    August 19 at 8:41am · ·
  • Wendy only to find the man with the stinky socks. Some how he had followed her from Singapore. The only thing should could do next......
    August 19 at 9:17am · ·
  • Bonnie was to pull her hat down over her eyes and hope he didn't see through her disguise ....
    August 19 at 9:31am · ·
  • Krista s.
    August 19 at 9:45am · ·
  • Wendy ‎(new paragraph) She had to, but she knew she shouldn't, have just one look. He was beautiful though unbearable to be by. His order could make a grown man...
    August 19 at 11:56am · ·
  • Brynna rejoice! in the smelliness that all men seem to covet. but erin took a deep breath in through her mouth and glanced at the stinky-sock man ever so quickly. but before she could re-hide her face...
    August 19 at 5:53pm · ·
  • Katie he recognized her! "Stop right there!" he ordered, and she realized that his breath was even worse than his socks. "Foolish girl, you thought you could hide from me forever..." She turned to run, but as she spun...
    August 19 at 6:30pm · ·
  • Wendy and her sneaker got caught on the cobble stone road. "Stupid Foreigners and their bright ideas for pretty useless roads!," she yelled while struggling with her brand new hot pink, zebra patterned, high tops. She had to get lose, she just had to. How could this be happening, she thought. Erin needed a.....
    August 19 at 6:35pm · ·
  • Katie snorkel! With such an instrument, she could at least breathe from a different direction, and perhaps the extra distance would be just far enough away that the air would be a tad clearer of the awful stench that was sneaker man. She couldn't think! Where was she, and what was she doing there? Her senses were filled with the putrid smell, and the sense of the dark figure coming ever closer.
    August 19 at 6:41pm · ·
  • Katie ‎*stinky sock man
    August 19 at 6:41pm · ·
  • Brynna
    alas, she could not make the man turn away from her!! he was fast approaching. erin needed another tool! a stethescope! only a stethescope could save her now. she reached into her pocket and pulled out the stethescope her brilliant sister b...See More
    August 19 at 6:44pm · ·
  • Katie He recovered quickly and fixed her with his evil eyes. All of her resources were exhausted, but right at the last moment, when all hope seemed lost, her cousin Katie leaped out of a dark alley where she had been doing her geography homework and tased him!! "Don't tase me, bro!" were the last words anyone heard out of him for a while...
    August 19 at 6:55pm · ·
  • Wendy
    because the sting of the taser caused him to fall on two bakers. These were not any bakers, they were the infamous Clark Q. Gable and Rod Iron from Bee Gees. They had been carrying the Queen's (yes, that Queen) double chocolate, triple ra...See More
    August 19 at 10:23pm · ·
  • Terry ‎... whose face was covered in cream cheese frosting such that only his evil eyes shone through, looking somewhat silly yet threatening, fixed his sweet evil gaze on Erin and Katie and said ....
    August 19 at 10:47pm · ·
  • Bonnie Arent you girls a long way from home. Then he reached into his pocket and ....
    August 19 at 10:50pm · ·
  • Terry Pulled out an antimatter device which released it's particles, clashing with matter.... And thus the world and this story ended. --the end--
    Saturday at 10:25pm · ·

  • So. That is what happened.

    The Great American Novel? I think not.

    Potentially the Great Singaporean Novel?

    Mayhaps.

    Is that the end?

    ....It could be. It could also not be. HmmmmmmMMMmmMMMmmm!

    2 comments:

    Deb in GA said...

    You are truly surrounded by creative women, my dear. You are blessed.

    Yes, I Am Blond said...

    Book Two: A long time ago in a galaxy far far away the residents of the planet of stinky sock men were zooming off in their star ships to explore other planets....