"Grindintosecond" (Grindintosecond)
08/05/2015 at 11:02 • Filed to: hotelfiction
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"Grindintosecond" (Grindintosecond)
08/05/2015 at 11:02 • Filed to: hotelfiction | 0
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Lately, this is fun. These could be more oriented as writing prompts by themselves, but they’re a bit of fun regardless. I’m still working on making a whole story fit on a small pad of paper, not to mention on the actual ability to write. In some hotels it’s impossible with the tiny postage stamps they provide next to the phone. This one is the start of Johnny’s day. (Kinja’d. It rotates the image automatically so I had to take a wide shot . )
In case you can’t read the writing:
Johnny woke up dead. Yet, there he was, standing in front of the bathroom mirror, sticking a band-aid over the clean .38 caliber hole in his forehead. Checking himself over slowly, he had straight vision, good hearing, talking wasn’t any harder than before. A pinch hurt. No pulse. No pulse...
“What the hell?” he thought, “How am I alive? I mean, moving?”
Johnny found the super glue in the junk drawer. He began to use it, putting the back of his head together
“There we go. I’ll wear a hat.”
None of the other detectives in the office would notice. It’s casual Friday.
Yes plenty of room for editing and revision. I think I’ll start an outside blog for this sort of thing. It’s fun and quick. I don’t have to think up any large backstory or sweeping settings.
pjhusa
> Grindintosecond
08/05/2015 at 11:04 |
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Just take the whole notepad already
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Grindintosecond
> pjhusa
08/05/2015 at 11:06 |
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Nah. It’s a challenge. I have one overnight. One piece of paper. Make it fit. Make it fun.
Patrick Nichols
> Grindintosecond
08/05/2015 at 11:30 |
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Check over at bibliomancy and ODeck. I know they do writing prompts every now and again
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Grindintosecond
> Patrick Nichols
08/05/2015 at 11:33 |
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Oh there’s quite a few prompt generators and sites out there. I even have a set of story cubes that are just fun to roll around until something poignant comes up.
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Grindintosecond
> Patrick Nichols
08/05/2015 at 11:46 |
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A Question: Who is the go to over there for commentary rights?
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Patrick Nichols
> Grindintosecond
08/05/2015 at 11:50 |
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For ODeck? check here
Bibliomancy? St. Ridley Santos
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Grindintosecond
> Patrick Nichols
08/05/2015 at 12:00 |
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Thank you. How are you personally using odeck/biblio? lurking or do you have comment/publish status?
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Patrick Nichols
> Grindintosecond
08/05/2015 at 12:07 |
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I’m an occasional author over at bibliomancy and commenter over on odeck, though I’ll probably look for authorship soon
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Grindintosecond
> Patrick Nichols
08/05/2015 at 12:11 |
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Understood. So given your enthusiasm for story. Please, tell me how bad this tiny story was. A review is a review. I think I need to read the guide to style a few hundred times.
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Patrick Nichols
> Grindintosecond
08/05/2015 at 12:16 |
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Really good actually! I read it and immediately thought it might be some sort of zombie vigilante origin story
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Grindintosecond
> Patrick Nichols
08/05/2015 at 12:22 |
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The concept is a detective that the bad guys found and offed him in the middle of the night. Waking up, completely alright except for the back of his head shot out. Also, he has to keep it under his hat. yeah literally and figuratively. What else is there to do but continue and finally finish the job. Catching the mob leader, the same one that can’t seem to have his guys off the detective that’s close.
“Well someone saw him getting coffee, again, just like yesterday.”
“I’ll get the bat.”
——-later——- *bonk!*
pulling his gun, “Asshole! I just fixed that!”
“....oh shit. Why won’t you die!”
“I don’t know!” BANG!