How to rescue your plot during nanowrimo.
Choose a number between 1-100
1• Kill a main character
2• Send your characters on a journey
3• Have your characters lose an important item
4• Have one of your characters go crazy
5• your characters stumble on a party
6• your characters throw a party
7• your character get drunk
8• your character gets drunk and blabs a secret
9• Switch to the villain's point of view
10• A volcano erupts nearby
11• Add a love interest
12• Add a new character
13• Your MC trips and breaks an arm
14• Characters argue over grammar
15• Have a character exclaim “There is no spoon”
16• Write a scene in a bowling alley
17• Have a character break his glasses
18• Reference yourself writing nanowrimo
19• Kill a mime
20• Use a trilobite in your novel
21• Send in the ninjas
22• Add a one night stand
23• Get your characters lost in a forest
24• Your MC's mother dies
25• Two characters kiss
26• One character walks in on two others during an intimate moment
27• A supporting character has a heart attack and dies
28• Your MC loses money at poker
29• Everyone gets food poisoning
30• Everyone gets the plague
31• Include a character who obsessively collects random objects
32• A character's long lost sibling turns up
33• A male character finds out he's the father of a teenager who shows up
34• A CIA agent tries to kill a character
35• The characters find a suitcase full of money
36• Have a character find a dead body in the trunk of their car
37• Include the phrase ‘I saw this in a movie once. It didn't work then.'
38• Go grab a random album and use the song tracks as chapter titles
39• Include any of the games you see on ‘who's line is it anyway'
40• Have a character wilfully remove his/her own limb
41• Include a brawl in a non contact sport eg tennis, croquet, cricket, ice skating
42• Include a llama
43• Include a terrible accident involving a rubber chicken
44• Have the villain and hero be ex- spouses, girl/boyfriend, fiancé etc
45• Write an entire chapter in which the characters only peel potatoes
46• Have a character literally die of too much homework
47• Include a soapbox moment about a subject you feel strongly about that has Nothing to do with the plot
48• Have a scene where a character suffers a mishap with a bendy straw
49• A herd of 100 bison stampede through your novel
50• Your characters are surrounded by a cloud of butterflies
51• A walk on gets hit by a bus, gets up, dusts themselves off, and walks away
52• Hit shuffle on your music player, and base the chapter on the first song that comes up
53• Have your characters play duck, duck, goose
54• Have your characters interpret a secret message
55• Go to the nano characters and plot realism forum and use the first prompt from top of the list
56• Open the nearest book, point to a line at random and use that as the basis for the next scene
57• Open the bible, point to a verse and have one of your characters quote it
58• Have a bank robbery interrupted by a second robbery at the same bank
59• Have your characters play I have never or another drinking game
60• Have your character play my grandmother went to Paris
61• Have your villain and MC run into each other by accident in public and be nice to each other
62• One of your characters has an odd but all consuming phobia
63• Include a polar bear somewhere a polar bear would absolutely never be
64• Your character opens a book in a library and finds a note asking for help
65• Your character opens a fortune cookie and finds a note asking for help
66• A hurricane hits your setting. It's named the same as your MC who complains loudly and bitterly about it
67• One of your characters gets pregnant
68• Have a character say something he shouldn't in his sleep
69• Have a character get arrested for a crime that happened years ago and is totally unrelated to the current plot.
70• Have your characters accidently enter an establishment they wouldn't normally be seen dead in – gay bar, biker bar, rodeo event etc
71• Have a character receive a box of random stuff in the mail from someone they don't know
72• Have a tough macho character receive an ugly present from his mother
73• Your characters are trapped by a freak storm inappropriate to the season
74• Your main character trips, hits his head and is unconscious all day. Everyone else talks about him behind his back.
75• Your villain falls in love with a secondary character
76• A foreigner tries to tell your characters something really important but doesn't speak their language
77• Your characters have for breakfast whatever you ate most recently
78• Your characters are kept awake all night by loud noises. They get giggly and share secrets.
79• A cute kids shows up and latches onto your MC. You have to get rid of the kid without killing him/her
80• Have a villain show up with the same name as your MC. They both get mad over it.
81• One of your characters bets another to do something unusual, stupid or difficult.
82• Whatever happened in the last chapter sparks a flashback to a similar event in MC's childhood.
83• A spaceship crash lands right in front of your characters. At least they think its a spaceship. It could be a hoax.
84• Your characters path is blocked by a construction crew. They have to go another way
85• One of your character goes into a fugue state and disappears
86• Have a sale at MC's fave store. The object he buys is cursed
87• Include your fave teacher from school as a minor character
88• Include your least fave teacher as a minor character
89• Your characters start a fire while playing with candles
90• A walk on character shows up again and reveals a crucial secret
91• Your MC dreams about another character
92• Have your characters find a mysterious ancient coin
93• A storm forces your characters to shelter somewhere creepy
94• Two characters who hate each other are forced to share a cramped space eg lift/hotel room/car
95• Your MC offends a minor character by constantly forgetting their name
96• The last inanimate object you mentioned breaks suddenly without anyone touching it
97• The character who most recently spoke comes down with laryngitis and can't speak for the whole of the next chapter
98• A beetle flies into a character's hair and everyone freaks out
99• A character swallows a bug. Someone comments ‘extra protien'
100• Your MC decides to write a novel.