Evil Editor's Blog, page 420

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Walking into the ostentatiously decorated office, I collapse into the chair without looking at my therapist. Woe was written on my face and I looked at the ceiling in despair, wringing my hands.

"So how are you today?"

"Fine."

A long pause.

"So tell me then why you are here."

I sigh. Another long pause.

Finally when the silence grew too unbearable, my wretched soul began to speak and I spilled forth my haunted thoughts. "Years it took to write my novel. At times every word was a struggle. Hi

Saturday Film Series

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Abriel Jones thinks she may have found something exciting about her life in a mysterious man who visits to lull her to sleep. [You know your life is dull when the only exciting part of it puts you to sleep.:] But when he leaves, she fears her life has relapsed to the way it had been. [Isn't she asleep when he leaves?:] On her seventeenth birthday, she receives more than she bargained for when she sends her boyfriend flying across the room. [What did she bargain for?:] If she had known what she di

Cartoon 444

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Writing Exercise

You've been feeling a bit depressed about all the rejection slips, and decide to make an appointment with a therapist who specializes in the anxieties associated with being a writer. Of course you had no idea until you arrived that the therapist was Evil Psychiatrist.

Write the scene. 300 words max.; deadline Sunday, 10 AM eastern.

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The thread snapped again in Sechra's fingers. She glanced at her aunt Rena, hoping she hadn't noticed anything.

"If you can't keep your mind on the work, girl, let it alone." Rena said wearily.

"I'm sorry! I tried..."

"What were you thinking of?" Sechra paused, struggled for an answer, shook her head.

"You wouldn't understand."

"That's what your mother always said." Sechra heard the exasperation in Rena's voice, and the worry, and the old hurt that lay under it. She understood, but she didn't kno

Cartoon 443

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Guess the Plot

Trust Me, Love Me, Let Me

1. Vienna Hampton never suspected her boyfriend was a con artist, even when he whispered, "If you trust me, if you love me, then you'll let me borrow your credit cards."

2. Tom Langton, self-help guru, is scheduled for a massive publicity push to support his new book. His rival threatens a counter-campaign to reveal Tom's failed personal life, so Tom asks his beautiful new neighbor to pretend to be his girlfriend. Hilarity ensues.

3. Rock star Jacob Lindsey h

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Success Story

I was in Barnes and Noble today picking up Cold Moon Rising for the next book chat, and upon the table with new releases was The Belly Dancer, by DeAnna Cameron. Long-time minions may recall that title from Face-Lift 194. I did announce earlier (4/7/08) that the book had been sold; now it can be bought.