60. Ugly duckling with suspicious similarities to the author makes a series of embarrassing social mistakes.
― Lily Dale, Monday, 27 February 2023 17:10 (one year ago) link
61. Orphan is unofficially adopted by a grumpy old man/a grumpy old woman/someone of a different race and/or social class/wolves
― Lily Dale, Monday, 27 February 2023 17:24 (one year ago) link
62. Sudden death at author's convenience---as in Middlemarch, even: stock devices aren't nec. bad, although I'm really sick of unreliable and most other or "other" first-person narrators.
― dow, Monday, 27 February 2023 18:03 (one year ago) link
Realized most of mine are actually plots, rather than plot devices. I should read thread titles more carefully.
― Lily Dale, Tuesday, 28 February 2023 00:39 (one year ago) link
you're good! this thread, like its TV cartoon predecessor, has always had room for both. and those are great also.
― got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 28 February 2023 04:33 (one year ago) link
57. Character with trauma goes to the country, feels better.
― Lily Dale, Monday, February 27, 2023 12:05 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
58. Superficially good-looking but ominously weak-jawed young man spends all his money on a horse.
― Lily Dale, Monday, February 27, 2023 12:06 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
Gonna make it happen, this year, maybe even this week.
― The field divisions are fastened with felicitations. (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 28 February 2023 05:59 (one year ago) link
Been mewing too, workin on that jaw
― The field divisions are fastened with felicitations. (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 28 February 2023 06:00 (one year ago) link