Evil Editor's Blog, page 325

Writing Exercise

Write a story about Evil Editor in the style of Dr. Suess.

200 words max.

Deadline Sunday, 10 AM eastern

Book Chat Schedule Change

Okay, based on all comments, everyone who has expressed an interest in attending can attend if it's Saturday, June 5th at 9 AM eastern. So that's our new time.

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Guess the Plot

The Nightmare Dragon

1. A lesser-known nocturnal legend vies for popularity with the Tooth Fairy.

2. Vanessa's new pillow allows her to physically enter the dream realm where a sulking dragon threatens to turn all dreams into nightmares unless someone gives it a pony.

3. As a dragonling Billy was teased unmercifully by the other dragonlings at Waverly School for Dragons. Now he's grown up to be Bilrazbullah, Lord of Nightmares, and those other little bastards are gonna pay.

4...

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Caption: Whirlochre

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Guess the Plot

Beauty for Ashes

1. John's faith in God was unshakable until God let John's beautiful wife burn to death. Now John has a new religion based on alcohol, gambling, and sex with strangers. Can anything save this man's soul?

2. Carlo Frumi is a student archeologist working at Pompeii. When he pours plaster into an ash mold of a former citizen, the woman whose face emerges from the past haunts him. But is she also visiting him in his room?

3. Norma Jean Walker, white trash stage mothe...

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Caption: Anon.

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Book Chat

If switching the chat to next Tuesday or Wednesday, or the following Saturday would allow Stacy and Fairy Hedgehog to attend without losing others, that's fine with me.

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When my mother was a kid her older sister used to tell her, "For somebody so smart, you sure are dumb." My mother would tell me about that at particular times; it wasn't really like her calling me dumb, but I took the point. She didn't say that when I told her about that week at summer camp. She didn't have to; I'd already told myself, when I first realized the difference between what I meant to do about Anna and Sheila and James and what I had actually done.

It's been five years now, and it's...

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Caption: Anon.

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Success Story

Stacia Kane's novel Unholy Ghosts should be hitting bookstore shelves today. Minions may remember the query from Face-Lift 469.

Ms. Kane, known here as December Quinn (Deece for short), has contributed several openings and continuations to this blog (including this opening to her now-published novel, Personal Demons). Most impressively, she's one of a select few authors to have material in all three volumes of Novel Deviations.