My novel, the Adventures of Mysty

[Ghosty]

I know I have been slacking a whole lot in writing the novel. This is because I have been roleplaying it out with Mysty very much instead. Every day since November 16th, except for the last three days of November when she was sick, December 17th when I was sick, and December 20th when I was on my way up to visit her, I've been doing that with her.

The shortest has been only 14 lines long (when we were both feeling pretty sick and decided we couldn't continue right then), and the longest has been 613 (when we pulled on from 11:30 AM to 9:30 PM, with the longest pause being 8 minutes.)

This amounts to, more or less, (because sometimes we have really long 'lines' that should be counted as more than one, and sometimes we chat about other stuff in comments) 9,500 lines, and counting.

Now, this is awesome for us, but for the few other people who are interested in the story, it's not so interesting.

So, I've decided I might try a "Quote of the Day" thing. Nothing super-spoiler-ish, just a humorous or typical snippet from our chatlog.

Before I start, a quick spoiler on what we're doing now... (run your mouse to select the 'invisible' text.)

As I said, we're done with Book 1, and now we're at Book 2. It's pretty much a sort of "super-flashback", dealing with what happened before Mysty met Ghosty and ended up at the mountain. Yep, she's not an amnesiac forever


So, my favorite quote from yesterday's chat:

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Jacob: There's plenty of time before school, right? I need to talk to you for a bit... Something's up this morning.
Mysty: Wh-what is it...?
Jacob: Well, for one, when I woke up, it was with this book in my hand. (shows you the green-covered book he was reading earlier) I've never seen it before. And look at the title... (it's kind of shadowy out here, but it looks like "The History of French Cows"...?)
Mysty: Well, that's strange.....
Jacob: Yeah. What is it right now... "The History of French Cows"? Why in the world would anyone write about that? Anyway... (stares at it intensely, before flipping it back to you) Look at it now. ("The Story of Francine Cawes"....?!)
Mysty: (I chuckle)...holy cow.......that is so cool!! How did you get it?! Does the story, or the information change with the cover?!
Jacob: Well.... (flips it open to a random page and shows you; the pages are covered in random sentences that make very little sense. As soon as you can read one, they all change into new, similar but obviously different random sentences....)
Mysty: Where did you get it?!
Jacob: I told you, I woke up and it was in my hand. I've never seen it before. I've been trying to figure it out... well, how long has it been... maybe ten minutes? Really only that long...?
Mysty: Some things are meant not to be figured out.....
[spoilerish few lines snipped out]
Jacob: So what's the use of it? Even if I was really interested in... "How to Chew Lobster Tails"... there's no actual information inside. There's just... "When in doubt of your alphabetical relevancy, choose the most narcissistic orange." Which, two seconds later, is "When in debt for your alfalfa relations, chew the most narcotic opal." I mean, I suppose I could get a laugh or two out of it if I were in the mood.
Mysty: Maybe you're looking at it wrong.....may I see...?
Jacob: Go ahead. (holds it out to you; you try to take it, but he won't let go) Umm... that's odd. You're trying to take it, right? Because I'm trying to give it to you....
Mysty: Well let me look at it while you hold it......(I look at it...and as I get closer my eyes feel weirder and weirder.......I start to read it, and touch the page a little....and my eyes started to blast light again....all this information going through my mind.....and that's the last thing I remember.....)...(I think someone is calling my name...)
[and there's some spoilerish stuff after this, but suffice it to say, yep, it was a dream ]

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