2. Include a baby elf.
3. "I could be your bull."
4. "Don't put mustard on the cat!" [Althea]
5. 'Local woman'
6. A picky eater. [Rhi]
7. "And then we discovered that rhododendrons liked cuddling." [Zev and Rhi]
8. Chainmail induced bruises in fascinating places. [Koridan]
9. "Whack me off a chunk." [Koridan, repeatedly]
10. Include a lynx.
11. Include an atheist who keeps a biblical story (or similar) and/or crucifix (or other obvious religious insignia) around at all times and refuses to part with it. [Koridan, and a moon pendant]
12. Mention a badger, a mushroom and a snake in the same paragraph.
13. A man who is cursed into saying "my beloved" after everything he says. [Vinn Coyle]
14. Include a character who is violently allergic to magic. Sneezing, coughing, the works. [Micaj Wann]
15. Compulsive Knitting Disorder. [Old Prisca]
16. A character who insists they can tell time by looking at the position of the sun in the sky. Bonus points if the story takes place in a contemporary setting. Double bonus points if its raining when they say it. [Farrell]
17. Have your villain dress in bright colors. [Azrael]
18. Snub your main character for at least a chapter.
19. In your world, have at least on person whose name is basically anti-fantasy. [Albert, Alba, Beth, Bart, Farrell, Ian Woon, Zita]
20. A MC suffers from mood altering PMS. The kind that makes you murderous one minute and weepy the next. [Rhi]
21. Someone must make reference to having sex in a kitchen. [Koridan]
22. One of your characters is celebate/chaste, but always attracts the opposite sex. [Aldebaran]
23. An elf with multiple earrings. [As good as all the Zion elves]
24. Have a cat act like a dog but make no mention at all of how odd the cat's behavior is. Everyone in the novel must act as though it's perfectly normal. Bonus points for getting your audience to think it as well. [Balthazar]
25. At some point in your novel, it must rain frogs. For no apparent reason. Never explain why it is raining frogs. Make it have absolutely no connection to the plot up to this point. Your characters may take the amphibian precipitation matter-of-factly, or they be bewildered, but don't offer any explanation for it.
26. Include a small cat without a nose. If anyone asks, it was an "unfortunate tuna incident". [Balthazar]
27. Have a character dress in extremely clashing colors for the whole novel. Or have a character dress in the same black clothing for the whole novel. [Endeavour]
28. A character who has a pet Slime Mold. [Endeavour]
29. Have a magic-user's familiar be entirely unlikely. A cow, a horse, a goat, a Chiahuahua, etc. [Fayre]
30. Make a character have a long, meaningful conversation with a cat. This has to be at least a thousand words if not more. For fun, you can also switch to the POV of the cat and have it think disdainful thoughts at the stupid human. [Morticius]
31. Have a character that wears a twenty-foot long scarf at all times. The scarf wearer must not: Ever take it off, for whatever the reason, save washing and sleeping. It is also requested that they trip over the scarf at least once. [Fayre]
32. Have a magician whose spells are invariably accompanied by the production of either a multitude of flowers (cut or growing from the ground) or a smell which would otherwise be notably out of character for the character to have around him. [Endeavour]
33. Have one of your characters (or set of characters) try to explain why another character from a completely different culture should adhere to some random and somewhat obscure superstitious tradition. Example: Two Americans try to explain to a Korean why killing ladybugs is a Very Bad Thing. Bonus points if this has to do with a major plot point. Double bonus points if your argument is logically sound. [Aldebaran - Koridan]
34. Write 2000 words about cooking an egg. Not eating the egg, just cooking it.
35. Include a conversation involving breakfast foods. Refer to it at least once after in your novel.
36. "Get this cat off my groin." [Azrael]
37. A character who include the words "if you will" in every sentence. [Lady Edmee]
38. Include an author in your story writing for NaNo. [Mr. Ian Woon]
39. Mr. Ian Woon.
40. Make one of your larger supporting characters, or main character, a talking bug of some kind - insect or arachnid - whatever. But it can't be a bad guy. [Calum]
41. Make one of your MC horrible at magic. Not just mediocre, but absolutely horrible. Have him constantly turn people into spoons, forks, and other misc paraphernalia. Bonus point if he turns someone into a sword on accident during a fight and the evil guy picks it up, admire the craftmanship, and rides away with it. [Rhi]
42. Include at least three references to Queen songs. [Death on two legs, Don't lose your head, A human body, The great pretender]
43. You must make as many references to the working titles of other NaNoers as possible. [Sarah Dyce - Down the Rushy Glen, EternalFool - The Blue Woman, Darth GMarc - The Titus Agenda, Lell - Draconia Influential, Mazzik - Not dead yet, Dash Riprock - Whispers in the dark, 6655321 - Memoirs of a maniac, LemurKat - Scavengers of the Deadlands, Mr. White - Once Interrupted, Lanfir Leah - Balance, Witch_fairy_angel - Forest fairies, Cottrelbentley - Dream Traveler]
44. A mad king. [King Idris]
45. Have a character who has a reoccurring dream about potatoes (in one way or another) and tells his/her friend about it, who attempts to analyze it. [Calum - Rhi]
46. Include an Office Memo Cat! Who runs from cube to cube with sticky notes covering its body. (altered) [Balthazar]
47. Mention last year's NaNo title in this year's NaNo. [Clipping the Wings]
48. Have a character walk around with a cat on their head for part of your novel. Don't have anyone think this is odd. [Morticius]
49. In your story, mention NaNoWriMo - only, it shouldn't be exactly NaNo as it is. It should be some twisted but still recognizable form of NaNo.
50. Make a cat explode in your novel for no good reason. [Balthazar]
51. Kill a character's pet. [Balthazar]
52. "What do you mean 'it was like that when you found it'?" [Morticius]
53. NaNo buddy cameo. [Bre as Brenna Con]
54. "You got to fuck the general's daughter."
55. Use grindylow in a sexual context. [Aldebaran]
56. Have one of your characters suffer from narcolepsy. [Calum]
57. One of your characters is a binge drinker who tends to get into trouble due to violent, drunken bouts. [Koridan]
58. Something unexpected must fall from the sky. No explanations. [Frogs]
59. Make one of your characters a necrophiliac. [Morticius]
60. Have someone say "I kind of love you". [Farrell]
61. Have one of your characters make up weird insults. [Koridan]
62. Have a character who's an aspiring writer/poet, who's always trying to write down cool things they've said and/or constantly bugs people for words that rhymes with another word. By the end of the story, they either should be published and successful (still the same problems of course) or a complete failure. Bonus points if this is your bad guy.
63. There must be an extremely vicious dog named Mooky.
64. Have a small dog fall on someone's head.
65. Someone gets an indestructable fishbowl stuck over their head.
66. Have one of your characters grow pink bunnies or purple horns, or both, at some point in your novel. They can be removed eventually if you want, and they don't have to grow on the character's head.
67. Have a character reply to a serious question using the lyrics of a song.
68. Include five of the following (more is better): a penguin, a lawyer, a weasel, a weasel who is a lawyer, a teaset missing the teapot, a troll who speaks like Shakespeare, a hydrophobic goldfish, a giraffe, a three-legged chicken, and/or broccoli. [A teasent missing the teapot, a weasel, a hyrdophobic goldfish, broccoli]
69. Someone in your book should be deadly afraid of chickens. There should be a reason why they are saying this.
70. Use a phobia somewhere in your novel. It can be explained or not. Bonus point if it's a really weird phobia.
71. Get a character drunk and in the bed with someone of the same sex.
72. "Where the hell are my pants?"
73. "Where the hell are your pants?"
74. Have a juggler appear somewhere in the story, and spend at least a paragraph on them.
75. Have a witch with a wart on her nose but who is otherwise quite attractive.
76. No novel is complete without a good bit of ritual sacrifce. So sacrifice something, anything.
77. Main female character: Give her menstrual cramps. We're talking the bad ones, too, the kind that can have you whimpering for minutes at a time and that goes on for a couple of days. Have this be an extreme inconvenience at a critical point in your story. Maybe even have it be a deciding factor in something important, like a fight perhaps.
78. Break someone's heart. Preferably the reader's.
79. Have religious characters who have the trials and tribulations of normal people of faith - their god has never intervened but they believe anyway. [Aldebaran]
80. Include a character with a horrible sense of direction that keeps wandering into your novel at inopportune times. Bonus point if this character can turn into a small black pig.
81. Have a god yell at a character.
82. Have a character get into big trouble with a god. This should not be mentioned until near the end of the story, and if possible should be irrelevant to the actual plot. Unless you want the god to come in and take revenge on the character.
83. "This is the funnest war ever!"
84. Have a character who only write with quill and ink.
85. Ask someone to lend you a random CD, then base 500 words of your novel off of the lyrics of the third track on that CD. [AFI - Bleed black]
86. Use any fight suggestions from the Evil Overlord List. ['I will dress in bright and cheery colors...', 'I will not grow a goatee...']
87. "I fuck you to... control you."
88. "Huh, that doesn't taste like bacon...."
89. Make the bad guy win. Somehow.
90. Make the villains comment on how they're going to take some of the stuff they stripped off the main characters to their wife and kids.
91. Have a cross-dressing male elvish prostitute.
92. "... but do you have a Flag?"
93. Include intelligent mermaids.
94. Include a small figure who runs in, grabs a book that no one noticed before, and runs out.
95. Kill your main character.