The next time you're thinking of hitting writer's block, ask whether you've simply closed your eyes, spun in a circle, and pointed at a random noun.

Boom. Toaster. Divorce. Meteor. Lawn chair with a secret. The world is full of things that aren't blue-eyed war boyfriends. Release them.

Skydance's discount Vecna makes me even more glad it was nowhere near Netflix or the producers of Stranger Things.

Or discount Andy Bernard? In that case, I'm even more glad that Skydance was nowhere near Peacock or The Office.

Can't wait 'til Skydance is gone. Then I'll just be glad.

TBH, my Reddit-Onion headline was the first that some heard Pope Francis had died.

If you really want to thinly veil your secret pleasure or unpopular opinion, write your self-insert without it and then give it to a different character.

Brutal.

Especially with writing, the answer may frequently be: You can't learn that from any explanation.

Accept it. Try. Fail. Learn. (Repeat as necessary.)

Also, looking for more sixth person POV. For those unfamiliar, the narrator is an entity that does not exist yet but is already disappointed by the choices being made.

Remember all: letting your characters live is cliche for two more weeks. When the next flood of "everybody dies" books hits stores, you may resume happy endings.

When unsure of how to kill off a character, pick your favorite die. Based on the number of sides, list that number-minus-one (n-1) of your favorite execution methods. Make the last side (the one we set aside earlier) a "reroll" for dramatic effect. And from there, just roll.

The artist was not thinking about Luigi's neck when drawing his neck... 👀

Teaching fact-based classes with AI is easy to get right. Tell the students to generate an AI essay; they only get credit for correctly marking up what the AI got wrong/right.

Fiction is tougher, unless they can't tell you the meaning of half of the words they used.

Apparently, so is the Flying Spaghetti Monster version of "The Creation of Adam"...

It's still my belief they picked JD to normalize somebody with a beard so Jr. would be palatable afterward.

While Trump obviously hates Obama, he's had a grudge against the Bush Dynasty ever since he asked to be on H.W.'s ticket and got the response, "Who the hell's Donald Trump?"

Trump himself said the other day, "Well, I guess JD would be the heir apparent to MAGA."

D.C., September 1, 2025, almost 3 years after Queen Elizabeth II dies, the White House admits on Labor Day that Trump's been dead for an entire weekend and they wanted to limit the celebration time before people went back to the office.

Whereas, the former GOP is the sole Party of protecting guns while blaming all other "causes" of these tragedies, and wields all three branches of Government,
I, the Omega and Future Inevitable 48th POTUS, approve, until further notice: "mass shooting" shall be called "Republican Endorsed Killings".

"Nothing we can do to prevent this," says only country where this still regularly happens. (The Onion.)

Works for RoboCop, too.

No, the last two posts are not contradictory. Read them again.

Loving more authors = Deeper pool of ripping each other off = Impossibility of anyone claiming that you've ripped off any one person ("Spartacus Effect")

"Good authors copy, great authors steal."
-- Unknown (and suspected stolen by T.S. Eliot)

"Haz sum?"
"Smell it ... ... LIKE FOOD???"

Never worry about originality. Nobody's had an original thought since at least 1948, maybe longer. That's why some people have such a strong existential crisis over "needing" to be original that "AI" becomes the scapegoat. Still, don't outright steal...

I mean...yeah. The same wealth greases the wheels of both parties, and then both parties make as much theatre as possible about having only one option if you hate the one in charge.

Reminds me that our only "Era of Good Feelings" is named for the only time without parties. Scrap them all.

I accepted.
I flew.
"He died."

Simply the best advice. Also the mantra ("Just write!") of the parody writing subreddit (r/writingcirclejerk). I suppose: In comoedia, veritas.

Samuel "Foghorn Leghorn" Clemens may have trolled and he may have done it very well for the 19th Century, but the OG American troll was Benjamin Franklin. You cannot read "A Letter to a Royal Academy: Fart Proudly" and tell me any different.

Seems easier to hack the software of an electronic voting machine, to activate at a specific date/time and flip the opposing party's votes after they cross a certain threshold. Bonus ease if your side has "eccentric" billionaire tech bros "inspect" the machines. No paper trail. #ElectionRigging101

Stubborn calf.
Once nudged.
Forever cold.

Reaching a reader's heart depends on character strength. If you're not using a strong enough character--and the movies ignore this when making chest holes--you may need a rib spreader.

#Writers, think beyond just retelling Animal Farm. Are you doing it because you have a "What if..." scenario or because you want to inject your own political message? Or do you just want to write about talking animals?

I see what you did there....