Why is there an Elephant Riding A Motorcycle?

I'm not answering that question, and I never want it to be asked of me.

There are things that I love about NaNoWriMo, and there are things that I hate. I approach it a little differently to the official stance on how we should be writing (if such a thing could be said to exist). While I'm writing, deciding on the rules as I go and have all the freedom to write whatever I damn well please, I won't jump out of the rules of my worlds. It isn't that I'm incapable of it, but I just refuse to do it out of principle. My written world might have things that could be considered anachronisms in our own history, but they fit within the rules of that world.

What I loathe about NaNo, is the write-ANYTHING approach, though the main instigator for this is the NaNo dares. As a disclaimer, I don't loathe the people who write the dares, and neither am I adverse to spontaneity. I started using an absolutely awesome app (tm... I think it needs a tm anyway. And why arent they iApps or something redundant like that? someone ask iSteve?)... an awesome app called The Brainstormer. Not just any Brainstormer, and definitely not Brainstormer Who. It's like a convenient version of cutting up lots of cardboard, putting random words on each card, and fishing them out to form random sentences.

Guess who discovered that AFTER cutting up lots of cardboard and putting random words on each card? Yup. That said, it's awesome, and gives me a means to randomly throw a custom list of adjectives, nouns and verbs together, which gives potential ideas that could fit inside my world.

But if the daily dare is "Have An Elephant Ride A Motorcycle", well fuck that.

I want something at the end, where I can read through it (or more likely, someone else can), and not get lost with random abstractions that only detach the reader from the world that they're experiencing. You may as well have a dare that asks you to remind the reader that they're reading a novel, and none of it is real.

I'm not saying I could never write something that involved an Elephant Riding A Motorcycle, but it would be a world pre-established where that kind of thing could happen. In such a setting, I'd imagine that a surprisingly sane serial killer would be equally as incongruous. Things belong in their own worlds. You don't see MY alternate self coming into this dimension and messing around with her giant claws and lightblooms.

By the way, you're reading my blog.

Addition:

Link to The Brainstormer app mentioned above.