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While normally it is difficult for me to

  • While normally it is difficult for me to begin writing, today was different. As I approached my keyboard hoping for a new subject, I became aware of a presence all around me.
  • The lights flickered and then rose to a blinding glow, buzzing ever louder as I put my fingers to the keys. I could see echoes or spirits of the greatest writers, channeling into
  • A pastiche of bad haircuts, overflowing ashtrays, and empty gin bottles interspersed with suicidal faces. I was one with the word processor. 2500 words. Then 5000.
  • And the capper is the words didn't make any sense! I mixed another Stolis. I took a big-foot drag on the cigar. This eulogy will send those old bastards at the American Legion
  • rushing to their dictionaries. I vowed not to use any words of fewer than three syllables. William F. Buckley would be proud of me if he were still alive. I returned to writing
  • with the hopes that this work would be the next, "all the presidents men." If only I had my own deep throat. Whispering secrets, exposing the truth. Instead I have had no
  • idea how to finish my term paper on "urination: the other side of asparagus". I decided to go out back and shoot some hoops instead. There, i found a disgruntled green grocer who
  • was peeing on a large bunch of asparagus. I asked him why he was doing that. He explained "because my urine smells of asparagus." This insprired he to return to my writing
  • but when i got there I found my protagonist was gone. Now what? how do you write a story with out a protagonist? I could hire an armature-tagonist, one without urinary imaginings.
  • Yes, this was flush with possibilities. I sat down at my PC and furiously typed away. Oh, this was my best work yet! Rich and complex, twisting, turning, until it came to: The End.
Started
2011-01-02 21:38:19
Finished
2011-03-30 14:02:10

6 Comments

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    RhettOracle Mar 31 2011 @ 07:44

    Unbelievably, the writer motif made it through the end!
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    noah Mar 31 2011 @ 11:40

    Yes this is one of the first FoldingStories to organically keep a theme going from beginning to end. Impressive...
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    ChucksterAce Mar 31 2011 @ 14:34

    My GOD maybe we should publish it!
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    SlimWhitman Mar 31 2011 @ 18:01

    Consider it published - at Foldingstory ;-)
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    49erFaithful Mar 31 2011 @ 18:46

    Solid backslaps and cigars all around! Harumph! Harumph!
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    ben Apr 01 2011 @ 00:49

    Yes, well done indeed!

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