LKH (Potentially) Dirty Mad Libs

[darksongtrilogy.livejournal.com]

After the last blog, I got to thinking about what LKH's "rough draft" must look like. We know that when she gets stuck she'll occasionally type insert weapons scene here or just leave blanks (seriously, she confessed this more than once) to be filled in later.

So first of all, what constitutes a rough draft? A lot of us are authors. When is the first draft really finished? If you've got insert weapons scene sprinkled throughout, plot bridges to nowhere, and contradictory plot points to be cut out, can you consider it "done?" Second, this insight really explains a lot, and I'll be willing to bet money that some of these plot points that she calls "false advertising" makes it into the plot summary on the dust jacket. That's happened two or three times already.

Third, using the very good analogy that the book must currently read like Mad Libs, is it any wonder the books are in the shape they're in? Something like this is ambiguous at best.

Edward's __________ was in my ____________. It was a great big ____________ that I couldn't have gotten anywhere else, and believe me, I'd looked. After a while I'd had to give up on my usual connections and thought about having one custom-made to fit my ______________, but Edward always came through in a pinch. His ______________ was just perfectly sized.

Well, hell, I wonder why we get sex scenes that make no sense?

But I was also wondering what other Mad Libs we might see, if we read the, ahem, completed first draft--or how we might fill those Mad Libs in.

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[karaz.livejournal.com]

I was pretty sure it would cause head explosions, which is why I didn't try to do it myself. ;P