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Just like the title says. This is the thread where you can post the silliest plot device you were able to come up with, and how/why it came to be. It could be blatant word padding, random plot twists, new characters that don't move the story anywhere, something else, or any combination of these.

Mine had to be my "ending" (my story isn't finished even though I made it to 50K). I was 10k words short at 8:30 last night. I was about to start slamming my head on my desk, since before this shortage, I had broken up as many words as I could think of, created some rediculously long titles (15 words or more) for my unnamed characters and places, and done every other conceivable thing that I could think of to do that didn't feel like cheating. Just when I thought that, in my love for procrastination, I had finally bitten off more than I could chew (I went into day 30 with just under 25K to go sweatdrop ). Right when I had resigned myself to losing, I had an idea. The longest song title in the world has 52 words in it. I decided that my MC, for no reason whatsoever, was going to start talking about it. She has a conversation about it with another character about the song (of course, referring to it by its full name at all times), and then she proposes a drinking game. Four other characters get involved, and it ends with them all passing out drunk.

So yeah. My silliest, most random plot moment (as well as my most blatant instance of word padding) is a 10k word drinking game.

Oh, that was definitely the story my MC had to write when I was really desperate for a word boost. (My MC writes stories throughout the book.) It was a quite interesting one about a king and his seven servants. I had the first servant say something, and the other five repeat exactly the same thing, and then I made the seventh servant mute, because the whole thing was too embarrassing. redface

My most silly point is probably this one scene where Aurus wants to try beer but nobody will let him... resulted in drawing this: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/43652114/

...it would have to be when my characters finally compete in the Annual Opera-Singing, Tree-Climbing, and Mozart Piano Concerto Competition, figure out that the man who hired them to do this (endangering them horribly in the process) is a slightly dillusional fisherman trying to win an ongoing bet with some old lady, and then one of the MCs, who has been completely mute for the entire book, suddenly belts out Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody, verbatum, to win the contest. The entire crowd starts singing along, and near the end a random guy with an electric guitar jumps on stage and starts playing along.

...and then they all go steal an ice cream truck.

Well, first of all... I only put one scene in my book that is definitely silly, and completely on a whim. Basically, my MC has a mutual relationship with his Physics teacher; they loathe each other. Bane, the teacher, hates Blaise, my MC, because he never pays attention in class. Blaise hates Bane "for trying to catch him off guard when he just wanted to brood in the corner of the room."

I threw in a random math class in which Bane writes what he deemed as a ridiculously difficult problem on the board and asks Blaise to answer it. I don't actually take Physics, so I took a question from a website: “If an object is thrown vertically upwards from a point 15 meters above the ground with the velocity of 49 meters per second, how high above the ground will the object reach?”

Then, and this was really the only reason I put the scene in there, Blaise takes out his glasses (he's nearsighted; can't see the board) and solves it in his head (how, I have no idea). To make Bane sweat, he pushed his glasses up just right, causing the light to gleam off of them, smugly. He then stated the answer: “The highest point the object will reach is... *dramatic pause* 137.5 meters above the ground.”

I just wanted to make the glasses gleam!

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