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I'm writing a novel - need suggestions

Posted: Nov 24, 2012

I'm participating in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). The idea is you write a 50,000 word novel in the month of November, good, bad, or ugly, just get the words down. My main character is an MT and she and her co-worker are talking about bad dictators. I could use more ideas. What is the funniest/strangest thing you have ever heard a doctor say while transcribing?

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Are you looking for what they should be including - IAMT

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in the actual medical report or perhaps what they say that is not to be included in the medical record? Got some real dandies from the side bar comments if ya want them;-)

I have a couple, as well. feel free to email me. - anon

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sounds interesting and fun. Is there a prize for this "novel?" just curious.

Here are plots I thought would - be interesting...

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MT overhears doctor murdering patients, spouse, business partners, or whatever and lives in fear of being discovered. Kind of like "Rear Window."

MT steals identities from patients and eventually has to track them down and murder them.

MT gets fed up, flips out and starts tracking down rude, nasty dictators and ensures they meet grisly, horrifying deaths. (I'm thinking a la "Saw" series.)

The last one is actually my favorite. LOL!

Heres the most interesting story line ever - see message

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A girl puts out thousands for an education, works 17 years in the business, has a decent income, supports her 2 kids alone, pays her taxes, and along comes a wicked squid (MModal) and drops pay, ships work to India, thousands of employees are unemployed, all of those thousands are now not paying taxes in the US, the MT loses her home, now lives in a shelter, getting food and medical care through the county, cant afford anything. The whole country stands by and sees this happening everywhere, in lots of other jobs and no one does anything about it. The government has a huge deficit, people have no jobs, living off the counties they live in, no one pays taxes to help pay down the deficit, and the government keeps borrowing money from China, and suddenly, the US as we know it is GONE.. SOLD TO CHINA.

The End

Sounds amazingly like "reality." - anon

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nm

Really... This one sounds more - like a

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documentary than fiction!

an awful lot of "death" involved in all of these suggestions - anon

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make me wonder and a little bit frightened....of you.

I love murder mysteries and - unfortunately...

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cannot think of any way to inject *sex* or even glamour into this occupation. LOL

Sex is easy to incorporate - Nancy

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Just have someone under the MT's table performing various acts while she tries to keep up her line count.

ewww....yuk! - ann

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just the thought gives me the creeps! couldn't you have kept this one to yourself?

Your imagination did you in... - Nancy

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...because I did not specify what acts. Your thoughts betray you. It could be as simple as kissing her toes.

I love a good bodice-ripper, but... - RC

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Combining sex and MT is enough to make me frigid for the rest of my life.

for once, RC, you and I agree on one thing at least. - anon

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just trying to stay off the politics board. It really Ps me off, most days. Otherwise, you are okay, I guess.

You are okay too - RC

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It really IS safer on this board. Is it just me, or do you get a physical reaction on the political board? Sometimes I swear I can feel my blood pressure soar. Then I'm grumpy for a few hours. My poor husband. :(

very much so.... - anon

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I get very angry on that board and it carries through to everything I do and say to anyone over the rest of the day, and maybe for several days. I don't have a husband, but I would feel quite badly for him if I did. My children are all grown and do not live with me, but they mostly get the brunt of my anger through emails and such. I am trying very hard to stay off that board. Most of the discussions, although informative, have no pertanance to life or reality, anyway. Things will be the way they are going to be, and nothing one can say or do, unless you are a member of a political team, is going to change that at all. For me, it is best just to not "get involved" in any of the conversations on there. :-)

I'm sorry if I contributed to your misery - RC

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I truly don't want to upset anyone, and I think half the time my own distress comes from the fact that I think I've upset other people, and the other half of the time, it's from the fact that other people have upset me!

I think it is healthy to stay away. It helps that the board is slower these days. I still stop by, but I'm trying not to get caught up in anything.

I will admit - anon

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that you did get under my skin a few times, but so did many of the other "regulars" on there. It was not just you, by any means! I need to learn to not get involved in any conversations, even if I feel someone else is being "ganged up on," or if I feel that someone is just plain wrong in what they are posting. I am just plain happier if I do not even go on the board and read anything...I guess I get "sucked in" way too easily. But that is my problem. There are times when even the other boards have posters that can irritate me too. Guess one of my lessons in life is to gain some self-control and stay out of it. :-)

I feel the same as you. - RC

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I get sucked in way too easily and it only makes me miserable. And again, I'm sorry to have bugged you like that.

That's okay....my fault too... - anon

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If I LET it bother me, then the other poster (not just you) controls me. I really do not like being angry all the time, even though there are parts of my life that would justify me being that way, but as you said, I am the one who is miserable because of it and only I can change that. so, I am working on it. :-)

I'd like that - teehee

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I'd love for someone to come clean out the dust bunnies under my desk.. that would be sexy.

Sexiest thing a man can do for a woman... - Nancy

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Exactly. I once read the results of a survey where women were asked what would get them "in the mood." The overwhelming response was their partner having cleaned the house. I have a hubby who cooks, and does the dishes and the laundry while I do MT. I make sure he is aware how much I appreciate him.

can't decide if this was funny or ghastly - x-ray MT

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From a well-loved & caring MD getting ready to retire: After speaking the patient's name, "Soon to appear in the obituaries." (Elderly patient, broken hip.) Oh, man!!!

NaNoWriMo - Nancy

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You go girl. NaNo is great fun. I have done it and won it 6/7 times. You are getting down near the end. Keep going and pass that finish line.

I'm not taking part this year because I have 2 full-time jobs and do need to sleep once in a while.

Nancy, It seems like - Cooper

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If you have won so many times, shouldn't you be a published author instead of an MT? You must be a darned good writer.

Good?!? Writer - Nancy

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Thank you for the compliment.

"Winning" NaNoWriMo requires writing 50,000 words in 30 days. The quality usually sucks and nobody reads what we have written.

I am a mediocre writer at best. I just had a lot of stories to tell. The scary thing is that being an MT pays better than being a writer unless you are someone like Stephen King or JK Rowling. That's pretty disheartening for budding writers.

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