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[crisper]

Within the first few days of my Write Something New Every Day project, nearly a year ago, I started an ideas file. Just a bullet list in a text document where I could jot down ideas that I might want to come back to later for a daily piece, in case I couldn't think of anything on the spot. In the early days, I had more ideas than days, and some of

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[harper_knight]

Well, I dunno if I'll do something as mind-breakingly insane as commit to writing something new every day, especially as I'm going back to uni next year, but I will put those into the ideas file and see what percolates.

Also, somehow I managed to miss reading HalfLANG, even though I read the one before, the one after, and most of your other pieces all year. The one most popular, I didn't see in either my friends feed or on reddit. Strange. It is pretty amazing. Not the best, I think I might have to go through the whole year again to figure what's my favorite.

My friends feed will be a sad place once you stop posting these stories of yours every day.

[mr_cellaneous]

My friends feed will be a sad place once you stop posting these stories of yours every day.

Word.

[crisper]

Aw, well, I will hopefully not entirely vanish from the universe. I'll just write what I want to write at a pace that is less grueling, is all.

[testing4l]

A goofy suggestion for "Passive" -- it's more or less something I've had in the back of my mind for a while now. Would it work if the character was a Mr. Magoo type?

[crisper]

Yeah, I expect so. The real trick isn't building the right kernel for the character, it's making anything happen interestingly in the passive voice.

[jeff2001]

You just have to pick a style which encourages passive voice -- pretend you're writing a college paper, for example.

[the_s_guy]

"The place is entered. Emotions are triggered. Anxiety. Fear. The air is filled with words. An argument is triggered - one-sided. He is told to pick up the item and follow her. There is no resistance."

[the_s_guy]

I like the idea of the bill. It could be a short piece. And why assume the bill would be clean and simple? What if it was one of those slammed-through-by-the-Godbotherers jobs which was purely there to allow them the pretense of legality when they kicked down the doors of Julian Assange and anyone else they didn't like?

[crisper]

Oh, man, maybe as a topical reference to the whole "no earmarks no matter what else it scuttles" trend... Hm.

[jwgh]

#1 reminds me of a Cecil Adams column (at least I think it was Cecil Adams) which discussed the question of penile enhancement. He referred to various devices advertised in the 1800s for that purpose but noted that their advertised purpose might not be what they were actually supposed to be used for, since the ads generally 'warned' that the devices might cause ejaculation.

[hwrnmnbsol]

I've started one of these as a Google Doc.

[crisper]

Oh, baby, bring it *completely on*.