Category: creative contributions to society
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In Triumph
I was poking around the NaNoWriMo web site’s forums, and came across this writing practice thing called prompting. The idea is that someone posts a short “prompt”, then everyone else has 15 minutes to write whatever they want about that prompt. I saw that a prompt had just been posted: “In Triumph”. Written like that,…
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The Classification and Generalization of Shit and Shit-Based Language
I have been doing some research, and here is a handy guide to the different types of shit. Living Shit: Living shit is born when people become frightened. They will often exclaim “you scared the living shit out of me!”, and they will no longer have sentient shit living inside of them. Bull Shit: Living…
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One Hundred Original Ideas for Horror Movies (#30 – 34)
We’re about 1/3 of the way through 100 ideas for horror movies, so let’s shake things up a bit. The next few ideas follow a theme: They’ve already been done. Sometimes I’m halfway through writing an original idea for a horror movie, when I get to the extensive research phase of the process and realize…