Everyone else is doing it, so...
There are a few things that everyone else is doing that I will do, too.
1. Make a list.
2. Post pictures in my blog. Only instead of horrifying pictures of hockey players, soccer players, and disembodied heads pasted onto the wrong bodies, I will post some pleasant pictures of Seth Kayte.
(Note the white belt.)
Some of you may be confused because Seth used to have curly hair. Well, that's the 2008 Seth. The 1923 Seth has straight hair that is sometimes blond, sometimes varying shades of brown. Also note her hair is sometimes a little bit wet and she has to lie on a vinyl bench until it dries, placing her hand protectively over her chest.
3. I will ask for suggestions about what you think needs to go into my novel. As you know, it will involve Seth, Laura, Scrap/King Lightning/Crystal Mayle. In the 1920's. Probably not the 30's, because I will already be taking huge historical liberties, and I don't want to have to edit out the Great Depression. The novel will almost certainly involve a faux queen pageant and, as has been said before, a lot of sequins. I'm undecided about other forms of glitter but, what the hell, might as well add them in, right? Just not body glitter, because that came along in the 1990's at raves and Ani Difranco concerts.
4. I will not gratuitously swear or say that I hate people, though. I'm worried about the repercussions. I don't want to compete with Jill for the most swear words, because that's a losing battle. And, I don't much care about anyone's preferences for hockey, though (as I hinted above) I would really like it if people didn't blog about it so much, and especially, if mysterious arguments I don't understand wouldn't keep creeping into the comments. (There must be some grammatical problem with that sentence, but I can't quite figure it out.)
5. I'm already out of lists. What else do you all do on your blogs?
6. Should I just number everything I say so that it seems like a list? Even if, on close inspection, you would all realize I failed?
1. Make a list.
2. Post pictures in my blog. Only instead of horrifying pictures of hockey players, soccer players, and disembodied heads pasted onto the wrong bodies, I will post some pleasant pictures of Seth Kayte.
(Note the white belt.)
Some of you may be confused because Seth used to have curly hair. Well, that's the 2008 Seth. The 1923 Seth has straight hair that is sometimes blond, sometimes varying shades of brown. Also note her hair is sometimes a little bit wet and she has to lie on a vinyl bench until it dries, placing her hand protectively over her chest.
3. I will ask for suggestions about what you think needs to go into my novel. As you know, it will involve Seth, Laura, Scrap/King Lightning/Crystal Mayle. In the 1920's. Probably not the 30's, because I will already be taking huge historical liberties, and I don't want to have to edit out the Great Depression. The novel will almost certainly involve a faux queen pageant and, as has been said before, a lot of sequins. I'm undecided about other forms of glitter but, what the hell, might as well add them in, right? Just not body glitter, because that came along in the 1990's at raves and Ani Difranco concerts.
4. I will not gratuitously swear or say that I hate people, though. I'm worried about the repercussions. I don't want to compete with Jill for the most swear words, because that's a losing battle. And, I don't much care about anyone's preferences for hockey, though (as I hinted above) I would really like it if people didn't blog about it so much, and especially, if mysterious arguments I don't understand wouldn't keep creeping into the comments. (There must be some grammatical problem with that sentence, but I can't quite figure it out.)
5. I'm already out of lists. What else do you all do on your blogs?
6. Should I just number everything I say so that it seems like a list? Even if, on close inspection, you would all realize I failed?
Okay, so Seth will discover that he has an illegitimate brother named Fernando. I think that they should discover it when they are shopping for belts and they both grab for the same belt. Then, they will have matching rings, but one should say "brot" and the other one should say "hers." They will not have known what it meant before.
ReplyDeleteDoes Seth have naturally curly hair that she uses some sort of 1920s fix for the flat iron? i.e. using an actual iron on her hair?
ReplyDeleteTo Katie: I LOVE this idea. There is so much possible drama in finding a long lost family member. 'brot' and 'hers' cracked me up.
ReplyDeleteTo Jill: Is this a suggestion for the novel or a question? I think describing Seth/Zac's grooming habits could buy me at least 500 words, don't you think? And that's 1% of my novel!
I would love to see Seth in a Ford Model T but it shouldn't be black it should be different, like red or blue or yellow...I had better ideas last night but it was a sleepless night
ReplyDeleteI like the Model T idea - and agree, it must be a little quirky. Maybe with blue sparkly vinyl seats so Seth can lie on them as her hair dries? I wouldn't recommend ironing (wet) hair on a vinyl surface, though.
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