A few minutes later, Eragon had arrived at Angela's tent only to find an angry, pacing were cat outside of it. "Is something wrong?" he asked tentatively, but upon receiving no reply, he walked straight into the tent. Dominique was sitting at the table drinking tea, and talking to Angela.
"Where's Elva?" Eragon asked, looking around. He was sure that Angela would think that meeting Dominique would be a good experience for her, and probably a good experience for Dominique too.
"Italy." Dominique replied.
"Where?"
"Elva creeps me out, so I sent her to the Volturi. Don't worry, they won't kill her, but when she comes back for book four, she might be a vampire, though technically, vampires are dead, I guess. "
"Uh…"
"I think she'll get along well with Jane, unless they compete to be Aro's favorite. I can't promise anything if that happens."
"Uh…"
"The Volturi are a group of really old vampires in Italy, which is a country in the world I come from, although the Volturi are actually from another book. Aro is one of the leaders."
"Uh…"
"Jane is this creepy little vampire who can cause incredible pain, just by looking at you."
"Uh…"
"It's like the Cruciatus Curse in Harry Potter," she added helpfully.
"Uh…"
"You should really read more. You have all this time before book four comes out, you should do something that I find important."
"Actually," Angela said matter-of-factly, "It's really stressing and time consuming to be rough drafted, rewritten, and edited, all out of order too. You would not believe this one seen he wrote, must have been half asleep, but it went on seemed like forever…"
"Well, while I have writer's block, Eragon can read." The author snapped her fingers, and several large piles of books appeared. "Read Harry Potter first, um, then Twilight, no Maximum Ride…"
"Yes, he decided to pair Arya with Murtagh instead of Eragon,"
"Wait, you should definitely read LOTR and The Chronicles of Narnia…"
"And Brom appeared to Eragon in a dream, but that didn't go over well, because he told Eragon about the Murtagh-Arya thing…"
"I always liked Ink-heart… Ooh! Enchanted Forest Chronicles! I love Patricia C. Wrede, but she's not as famous as some the other authors."
"Then they were dueling, but Arya had the green egg, which hatched for Elva, but Nasuada ordered her to be killed…"
"Gordon Korman is pretty funny, but that's more realistic fiction, I don't know if you'd understand it… What kind of books do you like, anyway?"
"Uh…"
"Fantasy will probably be the easiest one for you to understand, seeing as how your books are fantasy, but there are some really other great books too… I wonder if you would like Shannon Hale. Her writing is really aimed more at girls though… Oh, just read Harry Potter, and give Twilight to Arya. We can sort out the rest later." Eragon looked helplessly at the piles, heaps, and unorganized mountains that had continued to grow as different books and authors had crossed Dominique's mind. The teenager helped him find the series that she had mentioned, before he positively fled the now crowded tent. "We better pick these up quick," Dominique said to Angela, "My grandmother was a librarian, and she knows that I'm on fan fiction. I don't think that she's read Eragon, but it still wouldn't do for her to see this!"
Bob the Narrator was taking a well-deserved break. True, it was only a chapter and a half into the story, but he had also been narrating all of Dominique's other third-person stories, and third person was her favorite point of view to write from. She didn't even really appreciate him! Two examples of his finest work that he had poured his whole heart into had just been deleted from fan fiction.
"It's not you Bob, it's Me." she told him when he went to ask about it. "The narrating was just fine, but Leila was a Mary-Sue/author insert, and the whole plot of Bird Girl was really cliché. I thought I would do okay with Tara in Phoenix Song, but my brother kept telling me that people would think that the name was a My Immortals reference, and I realized that Tara was really an undercover Mary-Sue when compromised with my beta to give her a big nose to counter her Sueish childhood, and I just… couldn't… do it! It was horrible! Plus, only one person reviewed, so I didn't feel like anyone actually cared what was going to happen. To be completely honest, I just reviewed a Sue hating story, and I'm scarred the author might come to my profile, so I had to get rid of evidence." All his hard work, down the drain, and it wasn't like he could expect much more. The prologue of On the Edge of the Forest was first person, and he had gotten in only a few fleeting chapters before it switched back to first. Now Maeve was really raking in the big bucks while he, Dominique's old and faithful friend, was out of work. All he had ever really wanted was to be a character, but being the unnamed narrator had at least gotten him into the stories somehow. He was glad Dominique had writer's block. Now he at least had one last role before he went out.
"Bob! I never knew!" Dominique shouted tearfully, as she appeared out of nowhere. We'll fix this together, I promise. If you want to be a character you can, and don't forget that I'll need you for one-shots and other things, even if I write Forest from first person!"
Writing; it's better than therapy.
"Oh! I almost forgot my announcement! Ahem."
Immense and Very Significant Publication:
By Dominique the Author
Hey guys! I'm having a lot of fun with this story, even if it's not helping me with my writer's block quite so much as I would like. But whatever.
I would just like to put it out there, that I'm accepting ideas or characters that would like to join me, or whatever else you may want to add.
Get it?
Got it.
Good.
OOOHH! Grand Prize opportunity! That was a reference to an old awesome obscure and epic movie: The Court Jester.
I highly recommend it, and for those who have seen it (or know how to use Google) here is the prize opportunity: complete this line to the best of your ability-
"The pellet with the poison's in the…"
You will win either up to 100 of your own words in a chapter with character reactions, OR a minimum of 100 of my words on your topic with character reactions. Certain topics i.e. anything over T, will not be honored.
This offer is good until approximately the time which someone wins. At that time I may choose to post a new challenge.
"So good luck to everyone, except for people related to me, who are not allowed to participate!" Dominique finished. "Hey Bob, I'm bored. Let's do something really cliché next chapter."
And I'll end on that daunting note! Mwahaha!
