It's good to have support

[megwrites]

I'm really glad that I have a fiancee who's so supportive of my writing. He shows his support, often, by sitting down at my computer when I've gotten up to go the restroom or get a glass of water and adding his own special magic to the mix.

So that when I sit down again, there are words that I didn't type waiting for me.

Since I'm near the ending, he's trying to finish the novel for me.

His ending is:

Then monkeys ate them all.

The end?


The question mark is his, because he feels it would be the cleverest, most original thing ever done if a writer were to leave a book open for a sequel, because no writer's ever done that before.

For those who don't know, my fiancee has a monkey obsession. I don't know why but monkeys, pirates, and zombies excite and tittilate him to no end. I think it might be because he possesses a Y-chromosome. Not sure.

But I probably need to go back and make sure that there aren't any hidden monkeys in my novel. It would be really embarassing to have to explain to an agent why, in chapter twenty five, the emotional climax of the novel is interrupted by a horde of flying zombie pirate monkeys who eat everything in sight and then disappear suddenly as they came.

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[irysangel.livejournal.com]

That is hilariously cute! My husband does similar stuff. I leave notes around and write them on my dry-erase board, and he'll put stuff on there like: "Add more buttsecks." Because he finds it vastly amusing when I slap him on the arm for suggesting that I write buttsecks into my novel. He seems to think women want to read about that.

But yes, if I were you, I'd do a search for the word 'monkey' before turning in. ;)