Some thoughts on writing…

Let's get this out of the way right now. The contests are here to give amateur writers ideas and experience they might not have had otherwise and are just something that's supposed to be fun. When I started the contests the first half of 2009, they were for fun and have since been run by me alone.

     There is a movie in which the time we have left to live is used as currency. As absurd as this may sound, the reality is comparably ridiculous. In today's society one does not need any currency in the traditional sense, for if one is popular enough they get things for free.

Spring has sprung at the Cliché Factory. They’ve got all the names you know and love at everyday low, low prices for all your needs. There’s a huge selection of savings throughout the store. Their friendly, qualified, factory-trained technicians will meet or beat any offer, but wait, there’s more. Prices have been slashed to the bone. Don’t miss out on this fantastic sale.

Christine is, essentially, a book about a haunted car. Sure, it's a bit unorthodox, but it's actually a very good read. King starts the story in way that you can't put it down; there's no hundred pages waiting for plot to start, it just jumps right at it.

This week features a story by Seanwhat. When I first came across this story I found it quite enjoyable and the humor in it is definitely worth the quick read.

A warzone in what looks to be in a not-so-distant America. Gunfire and piles of bodies. Flash to society, where buildings, columns, even random walls, have advertisements for Slayers. The fighters? They're the players, inmates gambling their lives for freedom in a real life Call of Duty online match. The people controlling them?

If you had the misfortune of seeing the original 1978 Battlestar Galactica series, fret not. The reimagining is the show to watch if you wish to convert any of your friends to science fiction. Gone is the barely-colored landscapes of space and the impossible plot.

In the on-going war between man and snakes the snakes are way ahead.

The roach world, while it resembles ours, and exists in ours, is a separate part of the universe. God originally was going to make roaches the intelligent beings on earth and then changed his mind. That's why roaches can be chased, sprayed and killed but never eliminated. Let's look around the roach world for a bit.

Really, didn't the Waltons take way too long to say goodnight? By the time they finished saying goodnight it was time to start saying good morning. How did they ever get any sleep?

I've lived in places and know people who have live in places where an Arctic chill is 10 below zero. An Arctic blast drops the temperature to -20 to -40. That's when you blow out your breath and reach out and catch it. That's when you can freeze your lung breathing. Down here on the Southern coast, though, it's different. Here, an Arctic chill is temps under 32.

Here in Charleston, South Carolina, we have a flooding problem. It's not like when the Mississippi overflows it's banks and certainly not like the Great Flood. Seeing it written like that makes it seem like we're a bunch of whiners. So be it. The problem here is that the original Charles Towne, which is now downtown Charleston is below sea level.

People go on about how dumb animals are and how smart people are. Well, that's nonsense. Animals may not have the intellectual capacity we humans have but they also don't think about doing dumb things to other animals and then go ahead and do it. People do. How smart is that? Let's face it- some people are just plain dumb.

The summons from Pope Leo arrived by courier at Michaelangelo's house. Michaelangelo read it and snorted. Summoned! Summoned like a common man. He was Michaelangelo, great sculptor, great painter, great guy. No one summons him. He told the courier that.

"Yes, His Holiness said you might react that way. He said to give you the proper incentive."

The Theory Of Everything.

There is a theory going around amongst Physicists, Astrologist and Assorted Nuts that there is a single theory that explains everything. I don't think much of it for two reasons. One, no man can explain any woman and,two, no one understands the theory itself.

South Carolina- The Goofy Political State

South Carolina has always been the goofiest political state. One of our politicians committed aggravated assault on the floor of the US House Of Representatives way back- and we haven't looked back since.

Driving On Vacation

The Hound and the Chihuahua

Funny Money Be honest about it. When you look at the new design of US money, what's the first thing you think?
Monopoly money.

The Rose Peddlers

I am a dedicated Harry Potter fan. No, I don't dress up as the characters. I don't buy faux wands or inanimate broomsticks. However, I do often find myself scrawling essays on the complexities of the novel, trying desperately to be the first to discover Severus Snape\'s true loyalties, who is the true "Chosen One", and who will die.