Okay, Hesperis, I've thought hard about this, and I'm going to do it. I'm going to make it a trashy romance novel, with a narrator, in the style of the Lemony Snickett books, and an unhappy ending. My principal characters will be modeled on my border collie, (eager to please, rule bound, neurotic,) and on my Anatolian/Pyrenees cross, (a huge, gentle goodnatured lout who pleases himself, for whom rules are a conceptual conundrum.) Other characters will be based on my daughter's dog, (a slightly hyperactive funloving redhead,) my other dog (who is patient and good and sweet and needy and terrified of puppies,) and a whole slew of my other daughter's cats, (skanky males who don't groom themselves very well, sluttishly feral females who frequently abandon their young, a genderbending male we call Uncle Mom...) The rules say we can't start writing yet, so all I can do is plan - can't remember if we're allowed to have a written outline before the start date, do you know?

BTW, I think Bobert should seriously consider putting together 50,000 words about his interesting Wes Ginny relatives and neighbors - why, the story of the fellow and his wife living in the half a doublewide trailer in the "electricuted birds" thread is sidesplittingly funny, and could easily be drawn out to 10,000 words all by itself. Bobert, if you're reading this, I challenge you!