Writing Excuses Season Four Episode 33: Trunk Novels

Writing Excuses Season Four Episode 33: Trunk Novels

From http://www.writingexcuses.com/2010/08/22/writing-excuses-4-33-trunk-novels/

Key points: Don't hold back. Go ahead and use your good ideas now. Save those cool ideas -- repurpose and look for the right project. Beware falling into eternal rewrite. Give yourself time to grow. Watch for zombie darlings that need to be killed again.
( out of the grave )

[Howard] But sometimes the sand blows carelessly and freely.
[Brandon] Yes, it does. OK, we're going to do your first strip next time. You have to give us a writing prompt, then.
[Howard] OK. I'm going to take a word from my first strip. Interspeciated workplace.
[Dan] Nice.
[Howard] Take the phrase "interspeciated workplace" and run with it to someplace besides Schlock Mercenary.
[Brandon] Or he'll sue you. That's your other writing prompt. Howard Tayler sues you.
[Howard] I just got a cease-and-desist from a web cartoonist.
[Dan] When you write schlock fan fiction.
[Brandon] OK. This has been Writing Excuses. Thank you to our wonderful audience for cheering and making monkey noises and... I'm going to hold one up now.
[We love Jordo]
[Brandon] And loving Jordo. This has been Writing Excuses. You're out of excuses, now go write.
[Applause]

Ge-ge-ge no nyobou 8/25

a.k.a. what am I thinking?

In the entryway, after Shigeru walked through and said, "Oh, you're back," Shuhei shook his head and said, "He was worried." Kinuyo said, "He thought you took the children and left."
( breakdown... )

Fumie looked at the tray. She lifted the lid on the rice porridge, and said, "Oh, it's gotten stiff. I'll heat it back up." Shigeru said, "No, wait, I'm hungry. I'll eat it like that." Fumie started to spoon it into a bowl. Shigeru said, "That's fine. Just hold it up here." She held it up, and he spooned it into his mouth.

<to be continued>