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Now begins the fun part! Creating the story!

Remember these important facts:
Mrs. Peacock owns the Lead Pipe.
Miss Scarlet owns the Wrench.
Mrs. White owns the Rope.
Colonel Mustard owns the Revolver.
Professor Plum owns the Knife.
Mr. Green owns the Candlestick.

Professor Plum killed Miss Scarlet with the Lead Pipe in the Dining Room.

Blah blah blah... okay, you get the idea. I'll just cut to the chase... or shall I say cut to the events leading up to the murder scene and what not.

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Upon the ringing of the bell, Mrs. White appeared to take away the empty dishes of their supper. As soon as she finished cleaning up and disappearing from the room, Mrs. Peacock sighed loudly of boredom and turned to the others.
"Shall we go into the lounge?" she asked.
"Very well," replied Colonel Mustard, getting up from his seat and walking behind Mrs. Peacock towards the doorway of the dining room. Coming to Mr. Green's side, he begun a conversation with him.
Professor Plum had lingered behind, along with Miss Scarlet. However, their intentions were completely different. Miss Scarlet was doing it only because of manners. Being of her status [a secretary], she only thought it natural to let the others go before her. At least, that's how she become accustomed to doing whenever someone visited at Mrs. Peacock's residence.
Seeing that Miss Scarlet was about to leave the dining room, Professor Plum took a slightly nervous step forward and called out.
"Miss Scarlet... may, may I have a word?"
Miss Scarlet turned around and looked at Professor Plum with a quizzical look.
"I, I was wondering if we could talk. On a casual basis, that is," continued Professor Plum, slowly drawing closer to Miss Scarlet.
"I hope this won't take very long. I'm sure Mrs. Peacock will be needing my assistance," said Miss Scarlet.
"Oh," said Professor Plum. "Well, I don't know what she would need your help for. Seeing as she's only visiting with Colonel Mustard and Mr. Green at the moment. I can't think of anything she would need you for."
"I understand your logic, but you don't know Mrs. Peacock like I do," said Miss Scarlet.

Blah... blah... blah... Fast forwarding to the murder scene. whee

Professor Plum quickly grabbed onto Miss Scarlet's wrist, keeping her from walking away. She looked back at him with fire in her eyes.
"Let go of me!" she yelled.
"I don't know why you're making such a fuss," said Professor Plum, pulling her closer to him.
After some struggling, Professor Plum pushed her up against the wall, next to one of the counters in the dining room. Miss Scarlet turned her head away as he tried to advance another kiss, and as a result, noticed that her wrench was laying near by, next to Mrs. Peacock's lead pipe. She slowly reached her hand out and once she got a hold of it, she whacked Professor Plum over the head with it.
He staggered back holding his head, looking at her at surprise. As soon as he adjusted to the throbbing pain, he rushed towards her.

*sighs*

Okay this is taking too long...

But anyway you get the idea of where I was going with it. And you wouldn't have to keep the Clue characters name. You could create your own characters and attach them to which ever Clue character you want... and create a story that way.

Definitely is a nice way of getting inspiration for a story, I think. And if you're anything like me... as you've already seen... you get really into the details... and results in a very long story... even to a novel lenth. xd

I can't remember what movie I was watching... but one of the special features was an interview like thing... and the screenwriter was talking about the quote of "you should write what you know" and what not.

After I heard that, I automatically started thinking of the story I mentioned above. Originally I planned on having my main female character being a photographer for some magazine. But now... I'm thinking I'll just have her be a photographer who works for herself. And being a popular photographer, she ends up having a gallery showing in New York... and possibly also other gallery showings over on the West Coast as well - which would explain why she has to keep jumping back and forth between the coasts. And the only reason why she ends up spending two weeks in New York for the one time, is because she doesn't have any showings going on during the time on the West Coast.

So yeah... that's what I plan on doing. Mostly because I would be "writing what know". I know about photography. I know about galleries. I know about traveling to other places. The thing I don't know very much about is working in a magazine, office environment. So... yeah.

Well... I'm going to head off.

I decided to work a bit more on my story before dinner is ready.

So talk to you later.

The best thing about doing your school project on Jane Austen's Emma is that it gives you an excuse to read the novel and watch the BBC version again. 3nodding

I'm about 1/2-2/3 the way through the novel Emma right now. It's a pretty fast read. Very similar formatting style as Pride & Prejudice.

Sort of interesting how much that easy-flowing style contrasts with Persuasion. But I suppose that could be because Persuasion was Austen's last complete novel... and it was published after her death. So in other words, Austen never got around to revising it like she did with the other novels of hers. It's possible that it could've been nice and easy-flowing if she did her revising to it. At least... that's how I feel about it anyway.

Not really sure what I want to do today. I'll probably finish reading Emma, so that's out of the way. Then probably watch the BBC Emma version again, if I feel like it.

Might look at the book "Jane Austen In Context" for information about stuff I need for my presentation, if I feel like it.

*shrugs*

Just a do-whatever day for me.

La di da...

I'm going to go take a shower.

Be back in a bit.