Evil Editor's Blog, page 371

Success Story

*_Rachel_* reports that her short story, "Hide and Seek," has been published in an online magazine.

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Guess the Plot

Captain Kissy-Face

1. Hero apprentice Brian Wade learns the hard way why you should never offend the notary whose job is to assign your Superhero Name.

2. Captain Kissy-Face is the latest student to arrive at the school for superheroes. None of the other boys can figure out what his superpower is. The girls, on the other hand, all want him as their lab partner.

3. Every mini-skirted, wonderbra-ed space hottie Captain Kirk ever shagged - human, Vulcan or transdimensional energy bein...

Cartoon 552

Caption: Angie

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Writing Exercise

The 2nd Annual Bad Backstory Writing Exercise

(You'll find the first in the archives January 11, 2009)

Sometimes backstory works fine at the beginning of a novel or short story. When it doesn't, there are several possible reasons, including:
The backstory is far less interesting than the current plot, so why are we getting it up front?The backstory is far more interesting than the current plot, so why didn't we start the book earlier and get it first-hand?The backstory is so detailed it's...

New Beginning 718

Charlie Crampon walked out of the snack shop with a giant slushie in each hand. It was too early for caffeine, too late for food but just right for two double slushies -- giant-size, sugar-filled, brain-freezing buckets of ice shavings. The best companions for nighttime driving his Dad used to say. Two-thirty in the morning and insomniac crickets drowned out the lack of traffic on the highway. Fog chased the mosquitoes, blurred the face in the moon, turned the fireflies into smudges and made ...

Cartoon 551

Caption: Whirlochre

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Guess the Plot

A Storm Hits Valparaiso

1. It wasn't a meteorological storm, it was Aunt Agatha, who was driven there by James in the Bentley, on a mission to save the chicken franchise management career of Cousin Nigel, who was ready to toss it all to get lucky with Roxanne -- not realizing that Roxanne was a secret agent named Charles Johnson, or that the lowly driver, James, was his true father and the genius behind the family fortune, or that the chicken franchise was a front for an industri...

Cartoon 550

Caption: Anon.

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Book Chat

In the comments.

New Beginning 717 (Chapter opening)

The downpour drenched Minjee from head to toe. The weight of her clothes pressed against her shoulders. Mud constantly enveloped her feet; forcing her to wrench them free with each step forward; her thighs burned from exertion. Flashes of lightning guided her through the darkness. A tall, ominous mountain loomed in the distance and she spotted several patches of trees where she could possibly take shelter, but every time she thought about stopping, she could feel Master Ahn's stare on her bac...