Another NaNo idea I have, and this is rather apropos considering that Catch 22 is 50 years old today, is a comic novel about my old Army roommate. This fellow was a Mormon and might have been the worst Mormon I’ve ever met. We snapped a picture of him playing poker at a casino once, at two in the morning with two drunk girls on his lap, a cigarette, a half drunk bottle of beer and a dip in his mouth. That image pretty much summed him up. Have you ever seen these movies wherein they motivate and train monkey by enticing them with a banana? Substitute the monkey for my roommate and make the banana a beer and you know what motivated him. Although I tried not to spend too much time with him, I invariably did so, and I accrued a treasure trove of interesting stories.
So, although I think this could be a good NaNo topic if I don’t find myself motivated by any of the others, I also think that this story could be more of a compilation of short stories and might be better as a non-NaNo project.
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