Characters In Search Of A Plot

*coughs* NaNoWriMo. Right. *brightly* Moving on!

NaShaRiNoWriMo, or, Shameless Ripoff of Star Wars and Other Stories of Less Note

This will likely go nowhere, as I am prone to writer's block, whimsy, and random attacks of irritation. But in the spirit, I believe I shall try. To aid in my first attempt to do NaNoWriMo, I shall enact the following measures:

1) Accept 15,000 words rather than 50,000 words as a goal. I'm a first-year teacher; I have other stressful ways to ambitiously spend my time.

2) Shamelessly steal from popular fiction, so as to avoid the worst of writer's block.

3) Copy/paste from a Word file so as to have double copies of this...

4) Procrastinate on doing this as an incentive to improve lesson plans.

And now, to posting!

Irony

Institutional learning demands that we cease to use
rote filling out of forms; we must encourage creative
originality:
now, go fill out these forms in approved fashion, and
yawp along with everyone else.

The Youngest, Part Two

(Part One here.)

The queen mother was not satisfied with these odds, however. "Here," she said, "take this honest woodcutter's son with you, and treat him kindly. And if he should win the prize as his kind are wont to do, let him do so, and rejoice that you yet live and have the hope of another of the princesses." The young prince knew the wisdom of accepting his mother's gift and did so gladly.