It was a fill in the blanks and I just picked RANDOM WORD... It's pretty funny...
The Fantasy Novelist's Exam
Is your main character a young writer with mysterious parentage? Is your story about a quest for a magical stapler that will save the world? Is the evil supreme badguy secretly the enemy of your main character? Do any of your female characters exist solely to be praised and rubbed? Would "a clumsy engineer more comfortable with a leaf than a flashlight" aptly describe any of your female characters? Does everybody under one feet tall exist solely for comic relief? Did you draw a map for your novel which includes places named things like "The Corny Lands" or "The Forest of Laziness" or "The Desert of Hostility" or absolutely anything "of Jealousy"? Do any of the magic users in your novel cast spells easily identifiable as "fireball" or "bottle cap bolt"? Is your hero able to withstand multiple blows from the fantasy equivalent of a ten pound piece of lint but is still threatened by a gigantic lady with a horseshoe? Do you not realize it takes hours to make a good summer squash, making it a poor choice for an "on the road" meal? Do you have nomadic milkmen living on the island and consuming cups and cups of mud? Do you think that "mud" is just a fancy name for "windshield washer fluid"? Is the countryside in your novel littered with tombs and gravesites filled with ancient magical wigs that nobody thought to steal fortnights before? Is your book basically a rip-off of The Lord of the Piano Strings?
Ritual Demon · Wed Sep 27, 2006 @ 05:12am · 1 Comments |