WTF Wednesday – Uh, what is that thing?
So, I promised something non-political this week. That’s hard, but I did promise. And I thought about doing spam again, mostly because I just cleaned 493 spam messages out of the inbox (and while I wish I was making that number up, I’m not). But we’ve done that.
So we’re doing something fun. You all get to WTF me.
I’m working on a WIP I’m calling, rather tongue-in-cheek, the mystery-were. It received this name because I’m not telling people what the beastie part of my were is. There are.. um.. aside from me, 4 people who know. I brainstormed the idea with two of them, and ran the first couple of thousand words through one of them. The fourth one is my BFF, so she knows eeeeeverything.
Anyway, here’s the deal. Willem, my were-dude, is Dutch. He was marooned on the Australia coast in the mid 1600s (no, really. I have back story and research that explains this. I DO.). In any case, he runs afoul of the locals and gets himself cursed into a were.
So here’s where it gets fun – guess. Guess what my mystery-were is. I will give you a hint – it isn’t anything inanimate (at one point, were-boomerang or were-Ayers-Rock were suggested). So, knowing that it is an actual beastie, and not something inanimate, what do you think my mystery-were is?
Who knows, I might even tell you if you guess correctly.
Nah.
I’ve been guessing for weeks. All you do is laugh at me. I feel so inadequate.
He’s Dutch. How about a were-tulip?
I love the idea of were-tulip. I’m putting that in the idea file.
Were-dingo. I just like the sound of it.
Is he a werekangaroo?
Hmm, there are just so many interesting possibilities in Australia. A were-platypus? a were-echidna? were-kinkajou? a were-flying fox?
Hmm….I’d guess were-wombat, were-koala or were-shark.
A were-eagle? Something majestic and kinda yummy about that thought.
OK, he’s a were-Tassie tiger. Which makes him very, very lonely. Oh, wait. He went to Australia and not Tasmania? I think Tasmanian tigers were already extinct on the mainland in the mid-1600s. Sooo…. Nobody guessed were-crocodile?
Felicia – you are the first to guess were-crocodile.
Babette – I don’t think anyone has previously guessed were-kinkajou.
He would have been marooned along the coast of the Gulf of Carpentaria, probably closer to the Darwin side.
Were-song bird of some kind. Darwin loved his song birds.
Or he could be a were-turtle.
Were-tasmanian devil LOL…
There are so many possibilities.
Still pondering. This is rather fun, running through Australian animals I can think of. Were-bandicoot? Were-Weedy Sea Dragon?
I looooove these suggestions. So far 17 different possiblities. Wonderful!
were-emu hasn’t been guessed yet but if you ever did that to a hero…
Y’all. I’m having so much fun with your guesses. I’m going to do a contest on SS in a couple of weeks. In a bit of foreshadowing, I’m going to pick one of your comments at random and you’ll win whichever of my titles you like.
Using my random number generator (the Munchkin), I assigned you each numbers (1-11), then had her pick evens or odds and then pick a number. The winning number was odds, 5. That’s April. So, April, if you’ll email me which of my titles you want, i’ll send it along.