Novel Methods of Surgery, Murder, and Writing Novels

This came to me as one of those emails that bounces around the Web. I've condensed it a bit. It describes four episodes from movies by the Tamil film star Vijaykant. I haven't seen any of these movies, but I firmly believe that they exist!

1) Vijayakanth has an incurable brain tumor. His death is imminent. In a fight, Vijayakanth is shot in the head. The bullet passes through his ears, taking the tumor with it. He is cured.

2) Vijayakanth is confronted by three gangsters. He has a knife and a gun, but unfortunately only one bullet. He throws the knife at the middle gangster, then shoots the bullet at the knife. The knife cuts the bullet into two pieces, which kill the gangsters on each side. The knife kills the gangster in the middle.

3) Vijayakanth is chased by a gangster. He has a revolver, but there are no bullets in it. He waits for the gangster to shoot. As soon as the gangster shoots, Vijayakanth opens the bullet compartment of his revolver and catches the bullet. He closes the bullet compartment and fires his gun. Bang... the gangster dies....

4) Vijayakanth gets to know that the villain is on the other side of a very high wall, so high that even Vijayakanth can't jump over it. He pulls two guns from his pocket. He throws one gun in the air. When the gun has reached the height of the wall, he shoots at the trigger of the first gun with his second gun. The first gun fires, and the villain is dead.

A couple more NaNoWriMo-related things, picked up from the participants' forums:

Stickies: a very neat Post-It Notes kind of thing -- freeware -- make notes to yourself and stick them on your desktop.

The Snowflake Process: not software; the description of a method for plotting and organising one's novel. The idea of putting plot developments on a spreadsheet wouldn't have occurred to me, but I'm having a lot of fun with it. It turns out that I actually do have a plot! Who would have thought?