Evil Editor's Blog, page 428

Writing Exercise

The 2nd Annual Historical Pitch Session Exercise.

You'll find the 1st in the archives, July 27, 2008.

Thanks to his immortality, Evil Editor has been listening to pitches seemingly forever. Write a scene in which any author from throughout history is pitching a now-well-known work to Evil Editor.

Deadline: Sunday 10 AM eastern.

300 words Max.

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Guess the Plot

Nother World

1. Whenever some pipsqueak race discovers radio communication, Zack's job is to exterminate them. Otherwise in a few million years the Nargons' TV reception will go straight to hell. Zack backs his truck into orbit over the little blue planet and thinks, Nother world, nother dollar as he releases the gas.

2. Kidnapped during the night by an old man, Annie Watkins is taken to a world where leaves are the size of minivans. Her greatest fear is that the old man has brought

Cartoon 427

Caption: Anon.

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Literacy Signing

Each year the Romance Writers of America has a national conference which is mainly members only, but the night before the conference they stage a mass book signing open to the public. Hundreds of authors gather, publishers provide books which are purchased by the public, the authors sign the books and you get to meet them. And all the proceeds go to charity. This year the event is at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington D.C., tomorrow from 5:30 to about 7:30.

A quick scan of the names of

New Beginning 662 (prologue)

The echoing roar in the chamber died down soon after the final matter of the day was judged. The Mytholos Council ruled that King Lamansa must remove magic from all of the Faeries for eternity. The world had indeed become a place of chaos, and the council was taking proper steps to protect all the master creatures of earth and keep them separate from each other. The King knew the grand conclusion they arrived at was best for all, human and mythos alike, but they would not win this smaller matter

Cartoon 427

Caption: anon.

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Guess the Plot

Chasing the Goddess

1. Lady Cynthia Whitmore is the only person who can free the goddess of night from the orb in which she's been imprisoned for a thousand years. But the god of day wants the goddess in the orb, and he's willing to smite Cynthia to stop her.

2. Born into a long line of deities, trainee Goddess Tracey decides that a life of unknowableness and smiting isn't for her. She runs away to follow her dream of becoming a writer, pursued by an assortment of gods, demi-gods, de

Cartoon 426

Writing Exercise Results . . .

. . . are in the posts below. The task was to write a scene in which Professor Evil Editor asks his student to write a scene featuring the contents of a burlap sack he's brought into the classroom.

Professor EE 10

The tutor wandered in late, and looked distinctly like his lunch had been a little yeasty. "Good afternoon, class," he said, and let his gaze traverse the room until his bespectacled eyes fell upon me. He stared at me through wire-framed pince-nez. Waiting.

I cleared my throat. "Uh, good afternoon," I said.

"Hm. Looks like it's just you and me, then. Very well."

He reached behind the lectern and pulled out a large burlap sack, which he dropped with a muffled clatter on to the table. I looked at the