A Plot?

Well, I've decided to try to write a novel (or perhaps more accurately, a novella) in November as a part of the National Novel Writing Month. I'm not going to be starting the novel until November 1 -- that's Monday -- but I should probably come up with some plot ideas. This weekend my roommate is going to be out of town, so I should be able to update my other blog (Watching in the Dark) with some of the Van Johnson movies I've recently watched. (Let's just say that Brigadoon isn't very good.)

But! I need some kind of plot. Jenny suggested:

"write a novel about whatever you want, but there has to be a character named bean and there has to be an incident involving a squirrel falling *that's right, falling* out of a tree, cause it was too fat for the branch it was on, next to a park bench that someone is sitting on. the falling causes the person to have a heart attack and get sent to the hospital where they don't believe that a squirrel caused the heart attack therefore sending the person to a mental hospital where they are stuck for the rest of time. i personally think it would be funny if this character was beans mother and he knew the actual story but with all the red tape couldn't get his mom out of the hospital instead could only send her one letter a year and monthly batches of cookies. it would also be good if bean believed that squirrels were evil and trying to take over the world. perhaps beans mother really did belong in the mental hospital, with a son like bean.

it would also be good if there was a character who broke their finger from getting an over exuberant high five from their friend. (mine isn't broken)but it would make a good story, cause no one would believe it.

oh yeah and it would be good if you had a dog. dogs are always good in stories, just don't make it talk, just have it be around, as a prop to discuss."

So...yeah...I have a feeling that it might end up being a very autobiographical story. Because libraries are awesome and moving to a different town is cool. And I love how my roommate and I can talk about movies together. Old movies. We're all like, who would the average person know: Howard Keel or Van Johnson? And the answer is probably neither. And I can actually talk like that with some people here and they know what I mean. It's awesome.

Maybe I can come up with some weird character names or something.

Oooh! I could make it a psuedo-chick-lit novel. I mean, chick-lit is kind of lame, but it's enjoyable at the same time. Romantic complications in the library. Hmmm....drama, drama, drama. And of course, there has to be a wrong man. I'll have to think about this when I'm at lunch -- perhaps outline more of the plot. But I think chick-lit set at a library would be fun. And maybe there can be some disagreements over who gets what guy -- there aren't too many youngish men who work at libraries. I mean, there aren't many here at all! Hmmmm....