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Writing Exercise

Evil Editor has just spent a weekend at a writers convention talking about query letters and listening to author pitches. He leaves the hotel, tosses his suitcase in the trunk of a cab and says, "Airport." Turns out his cab driver is the talkative type. And an aspiring writer. Write the scene.

300 words max; deadline Sunday, 10 AM eastern.

Distillery

Leah Libresco sent this link to a page that should help you distill your plot, no matter what it is, into one sentence.

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Guess the Plot

Gifted

1. When the package arrives, Ernestine believes it is her long-overdue oven-mitts, until a vaporous genie wafts out and volunteers to fix her problems with Stan. Unsure about trusting her love-life to a mirage, she suggests they start with a new career in optometry and the genie agrees. Hilarity ensues.

2. When Santa and the reindeer crash on Christmas Eve, all the cavemen are excited about the sudden abundance of free food. Mugoo fires up the barbeque while Santa searches ...

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Caption: Evil Editor

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Coach Chahuank greeted me. He had an amazing deep red complexion. "You're going to tell me you want to win," he said. He knew my thoughts before I knew them, a man of second-sight, sibylline even. I wanted to be the quintessential older athlete who might never have the full bloom of youth again but could still be a champion. In this, the most important interview of my life, I filled myself with bravado.

"I want to be the best ever," my answer.

"The Olympic team might have accepted you but for t...

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Caption: Stacy

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September Book Chat

If Saturday (eastern time zone) is preferred, and we want to schedule in September, it looks like were doing it the 26th. As for the time, if we can work out a time that isn't in the midnight to 7 AM range for anyone who wants to attend, that would be ideal. So who's coming?[image error]

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3. Jack Hoboken could have put up with everyone in his family turning into wereanimals if it we...

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Caption: Anon.

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Writing Exercise Results . . .

. . . are in the posts below. The task was to write a scene in which you take over for a preacher who just dropped dead, and deliver his sermon . . . on International Talk Like a Pirate Day.[image error]