Colleen Thomas
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Okay, I'm over ten K words, time to get some food 
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Colleen Thomas said:Okay, I'm over ten K words, time to get some food![]()

Colleen Thomas said:Okay, I'm over ten K words, time to get some food![]()
Colleen Thomas said:Okay, I'm over ten K words, time to get some food![]()
Thought I was speeding at 5k.Colleen Thomas said:Okay, I'm over ten K words, time to get some food![]()
”I’m tellin’ ya… (hic!) this dragon racing is no biggie!”
“What are ya sayin’, boy?”
“I’m sayin’..! (Burp...) That I can take on all of ‘em fancy noblemen! There’s like NO better dragon tamer than me (hic!) on this side of the Blue Mountains!”
A loud laughter filled the hot, smoky room. The young boy waved his tankard enthusiastically in front of the nose of the man he was adressing.
“Ya don’t believe me?” he said, with the loud voice of a drunk man. “I’ll have you know, misser, that I’ve been tamin’ animals ever since I was, like, a (hic!) lil’ boy! There’s, like, NO better animal tamer than Rye Bennet, ya hear?”
“Tamin’ chicken in a henhouse is easy,” said the old man, grinning. “Tamin’ a fire-breathin, man-eatin’, 3.000-kilos-weighin’ beast of muscles’ quite another thing!”
“Not fer me, it ain’t!” said the boy, and had another mouthful of mead.
“If yer so great, how come you’re not racin’?”
The boy pulled a hand through the long, dirty blonde hair, and grinned sheepishly.
“Eeh, ya know... one needs a dragon fer that!” he said, and leaned against the bar. “And them lords and ladies... they don’t recognize pure talent when they see it. They prefer an expi... expri... a wizard who’s been around long! (Hic!) They don’t see that TALENT!” – he slapped his chest with his hand – “is much more important than old sussec... scussex... successescuess stories! And then ol’ wizards... they don’t want any young blood – they, like, work against me! That’s what they’re doin’!”
“OK, windbag, if yer so sure yer such a great animal tamer, whaddaya say to a lil’ bet here?”
The boy finished his mead and slammed the tankard down on the bar.
“Sure!” he said. “What kind of bet?”
“The taverner has a cat, a big ol’ tabby. Now, if ya can make that cat walk on its hind legs... why, then I’ll buy ya another fill of that mead!”
“Yer on!” the boy grinned.
“But if ya loose, YER buyin’!”
“Ain’t gonna happen’!” said the boy. “Where’s that lil’ pussycat?”
The taverner, who didn’t mind his guests coming up with silly bets that made them buy lots of mead, went into the kitchen and came back with a fat, old, marmelade-coloured cat. He put it on the bar in front of the drunk boy, who put a hand under the animal’s chin and forced its head up. The cat glared at him with its lazy, yellow eyes. Then it suddenly tensed up, its eyes widened, the pupils narrowed until they seemed to have disappeared, and the irises seemed to shift to a green shade. The boy’s mouth curved slightly at a side. He removed his hand and let it slowly fall to his side. The fat cat rose on its hind legs and staggered clumsily over the bar, walked heavily on its hind legs. The boy squinted, and the cat slowly sat down, purring loudly enough for all to hear. The room was quiet but for the sound of the cat. Everyone’s eyes were fixed on the boy and the cat. A man in the dark corner of the room, invisible behind the backs of all the others, grinned a toothless grin, and made a gesture with his hand. Suddenly, the cat began to shift its shape. It grew to ten times its normal size, the fur darkened to deep red with black stripes, and its teeth sprouted fangs, the length of a man’s hand. The purring deepened to a growl, like that from an underworld’s predatory beast.
“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!”
The boy ran for the door, and the giant feline leaped to the floor and chased after him. The taverner and his guests ran out of the little tavern to see what was going to happen. The full moon lit up the dark night, enough to let them watch a swift, dark shadow chase a screaming figure down a slope and through a hedge of thornbushes. The wild run ended with a loud SPLASH!, suggesting that the boy had jumped into the river to escape the sabre-toothed monster, who now paced the riverbank, growling with disappointment. The crowd of drunkards gathered around, laughing heartily. Someone transformed the beast back to its normal size and shape, and it fled into the bushes to get away from mankind’s sadistic sense of humour.
“Ya better go back home to yer mother, dragon tamer!”
“Help me!” shouted the boy. “I can’t swim!”
“Why don’t ya tame the fish, then?”
“Come, lads! This joke calls fer another drink!”
The crowd made its way back to the tavern, laughing, Only a servant girl stayed behind.
“Help me!” gasped the boy. “For the love of everything sacred, help me!”
“Relax,” said the girl impatiently. “It’s not very deep.”
The boy put his feet down and discovered that she was right. The water only reached to his chest. Relieved and somewhat embarrassed, he waded into shore.
“Come with me,” said the girl.
She led him up to the barn, opened the door, and gestured for him to go inside.
“Go in there and take your clothes off!” she said.
“Yer kiddin’!” said the boy. “Look, girlie, normally I’d love to roll in the hay with a gal, but not now! I’m wet an’ cold an’ tired...”
“I’m not going in there with you, you drunken little waste of flesh!” said the girl, indignified. “I’m offering you the only place around here where you may sleep through the night without waking up with a pneumonia!”
“Huh?” said the boy.
“Go in there, take off your wet clothes, and hand them to me,” she said. “You can crawl into the hay to keep warm tonight. I’ll make sure your clothes are dry for tomorrow.”
“There’s no rats in there, is there?” said the boy, and wrinkled his nose.
“No,” said the girl, with a wicked little smile. “The cat ate them all.”
The boy shuddered at the thought of the cat and the fangs of the beast it had turned into. He walked into the barn, undressed in the shield of darkness, and handed the wet clothes to the girl through the door. As she closed the door and fastened the rope to keep it closed, she heard him rustle through the hay to make himself a bed.
This would be it.cloudy said:Okay, this is seriously cool.
Someone has designed an "active desktop" for NaNo. I've got it, and it's going to be some help, I think, getting through the month and succeeding. There's all sorts of links, a timer to time yourself when you write, a calendar, etc.
You can get it here
This is what it looks like:
http://www.1greeneye.net/green/nanoactive/active_sc.gif
Aliyahlovinsex said:Thanks Entitled
I got it, but it doesn't work
Won't let me time my writing..which is what I really wanted to do
Aliyahlovinsex said:Thanks Entitled
I got it, but it doesn't work
Won't let me time my writing..which is what I really wanted to do
CrimsonMaiden said:It doesn't work for me either. It just shows up as a little box with no borders, I can't maximize it and I can't see anything but the top left corner of the calendar.
cloudy said:Crim, make sure that you don't have your desktop "locked."
Once it's not locked, the buttons to maximize, minimize, etc. will appear in the upper right corner, and you can maximize it (I had the same problem).

entitled said:
Only every once in a while.sweetnpetite said:anyone ever tell you you're amazing?![]()
entitled said:Only every once in a while.![]()