Ogwaros Iwenâl

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Uncomfortable plot summaries

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The premise: Take the plot of a movie, book or TV show and reword it to totally misrepresent the original work.  This is similar to the idea of trailer recuts I posted a while back.

The results: Hilarity.  Be sure to read the comments as well.  While a lot of the people seem to be missing the point, there are some gems buried in the comments.

As for my own untitled work:  Boy moves to a magical underwater city, becomes a great leader, lives forever.

Written by Brian Upton

May 12th, 2009 at 10:03 pm

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IAmLaZyMo

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This month is NaNoWriMo and I haven’t written more than a couple of words in my existing (and languishing) novel. Which is all of 9 pages long so far. I did manage to write an entire three paragraphs in a single sitting in late October. Hardly impressive but those three paragraphs represent the only real progress on it in about a year.

Not that I’m participating in NaNoWriMo — and it would be cheating to start with my existing material anyway — but I would like to start making progress again. I just need to find a way to focus on it. Installing Q10 seemed to help some, but I think this is just going to be one of those force-of-sheer-will things.

Written by Brian Upton

November 8th, 2008 at 11:13 pm