Evil Editor's Blog, page 319

Writing Exercise

Go to this random word generator. Set the number of words at 20 and generate your list. Write an amusing scene using all 20 words. Include four bad analogies, each of which includes one or more of your words. Capitalize the words from your list so we'll know what they are. Extra credit if Evil Editor is in your scene.

Max words 300, but the fewer you need the more impressed we'll be, unless you pull some cheap stunt like having some character find a piece of paper with a bunch of your words li...

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Guess the Plot

One Man's Treasure

1. An archaelology professor desperate for tenure. A son trying to pay his father's debt to international arms dealers. A monk on a mission from God. Everyone wants to get his hands on St. Peter's beard comb.

2. A sweeping, generational tale that begins with one man and a metal detector on a lonely, wind-swept beach and ends with a four page sentence that can't fail to impress the Booker committee.

3. Systems analyst David Schultz can't believe his luck when he...

Cartoon 665

Caption: Anon.

Your caption on the next cartoon! Link in sidebar.

New Beginning 759

Even in space, some neighbourhoods are better than others.

A neighbourhood, called a drift because, well, it drifts in space, might appear anywhere a stable wormhole is found. The stream of guaranteed interstellar traffic brings out innkeepers, traders, quantum-drive mechanics and the usual hangers-on at any port town: smugglers, gamblers, good-time girls. Agglomerate Drifts are the flotsam of the galaxy in both building materials and population, aggregating wherever there's a potential profit...

Cartoon 664

Caption: Mother (Re)produces

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Guess the Plot

A Tale of Youth and Sorrow

1. Behind the bars: wailing and weeping. Outside: the holy object lies alone, unreachable. Will any hero rise and save the day? Who will come and reunite Sammy with his blankie?

2. Like, this one time, my parents go, "Clean your room," when i already had, like, way too much homework, dude. Life can be so unfair.

3. Jack Sorrow, New York's toughest homicide detective, quickly learns that today's kids are even more dangerous than he thought when his part...

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Guess the Plot

A Tale of Youth and Sorrow

1. Behind the bars: wailing and weeping. Outside: the holy object lies alone, unreachable. Will any hero rise and save the day? Who will come and reunite Sammy with his blankie?

2. Like, this one time, my parents go, "Clean your room," when i already had, like, way too much homework, dude. Life can be so unfair.

3. Jack Sorrow, New York's toughest homicide detective, quickly learns that today's kids are even more dangerous than he thought when his part...

Cartoon 663

Caption: Anon.

Your caption on the next cartoon! Link in sidebar.

Writing Exercise Results . . .

are in the posts below. The task was to write a scene in which Evil Editor teaches in summer school.

Summer School Teacher 3

Memo to students, Creative Writing, Summer Session
News: Grisham unavailable. I'm substituting. First day assignment: What do you expect to get out of this course?
Evil Editor.

Dear Teacher,
What this summer is going to be isn't what I wanted it to be but the teacher gave me a failing grade and I have to learn where periods and commas go and all that other stuff this, this summer while my friends are off at water parks and roller coasters and I'm stuck in this stinking classroom trying to write w...