sept20 in idea barrages

You know though, if the Trojans HAD looked a gift horse in the mouth…

It’s a shame how many people would appreciate overlaying the lyrics to Thela Hun Ginjeet over the tune of Eleanor Rigby, but I’m just telling you, it would work really well. In reverse too!

A horror movie about a cooking show host who turns to murder called FOND FOOTAGE.

The Healthy Caveman at the back of my head lectures me. “Answer to Body Hurt, not always Food Have”. And I’m like aaaaaaaaaaaahhhh, whadda you know, you’re a caveman.

No one ever likes the kid sidekick. Kids don’t identify with the kid sidekick. No one wants to be Robin or Wesley or whatever his name was with the dumb hat. Kids wanna be Han or Batman or Dick Tracy. Kid sidekicks only exist because clueless executives THINK they sell toys.

A picture of myself dressed for winter, looking like a stern demanding Bernie Sanders, with the caption: I AM ONCE AGAIN ASKING FOR A VERSION OF THE SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR FOR GROWN-UPS.

Making up new words for stuff that already exists isn’t “world building” in sci-fi/fantasy. It isn’t mandatory & if it doesn’t have verisimilitude, it isn’t “clever”, it just pulls the reader out. You don’t gotta call the space money “kreblors”. Credit, unit or coin will do fine.

I wonder how many erotic-fan-fiction stories about members of the NBA are titled “On The Rebound”.