Writer's block is a bitch.

Writer's block is a bitch.

Why this limit of 180 characters? How am I supposed to build a character? And what's up with the 3 min time limit? Sorry, I can't do it. Writer's block is hell.

I decided then to open my FoldingStory Writer's workshop. We sat at monitors while the sensei would hit us with bamboo sticks when we hit our 3 min. limit. We had flash cards with

FoldingStory memes on them, to which we could resort in times of braindeath. At the workshop, bribing folks to our like folds was common. We weren't above anything that boosted our

self-image. Especially counting "likes" like Native Americans counting coups. Only this was an online story game and American Indians lived outdoors and hunted food. The comparison

was apt, despite making no literary or metaphorical sense. But then, metaphors were whored about as much as Scientology whores out Tom Cruise. I knew this Sioux tribe Brahman once.

who would quote proverbs that mixed metaphors like a blender and never fit the situation. Once, when we were trapped under fire from the Nazi air ship he said to me, "

A bird in the bush is worth 2 in the hand" before hurling a Molotov cocktail. The airship plunged in flames and soon Nazis were running around like early birds catching worms. We

ran outta there faster than you could say Jack Robinson, escaping through a secret tunnel. Two days later, we emerged, filthy, in Amsterdam.Annika met us there, chiding our foolish