The Drabblecast

[quote="myke_deschain
and one last thing... I'm really surprised no ones made a lame 'stick in the mud' pun... not impressed..[/quote]
Uh, I guess someone just did.

ROU Killing Time wrote:[quote="myke_deschain
and one last thing... I'm really surprised no ones made a lame 'stick in the mud' pun... not impressed..

Uh, I guess someone just did.[/quote]

eh yes, yes, but one of the reasons i come on this board is to hear all the witty and creative and dry humor that is not produced otherwise in life... hmmm maybe Algernon Sydney is Dead can pump out a twit-fic on sticks, i swear that guy has to be reading these things out of a tome of twit-ficery or something..

strawman wrote:You're from "the sticks"? My irony alarm is sounding.
Would that be Cambridge or New Zealand?

New Zealand, although I'm actually an Aussie. [baaaaaaaa]

From Michael Swanwick's blog...

"So how did I come to write that story in the first place? I'm glad you asked. It began when I went to a reading by a friend whose name I shall discreetly elide. Mere minutes into the reading I had discovered two facts:

1) That I already knew the piece, since I'd read it in manuscript, and

2) That my friend was the single worst reader I'd ever heard in my life, bar none.

For a time, there was some entertainment to be had from determining whether or not a verbal fumble and correction would be made in literally every sentence read. But then it became clear that, yes, it would, and boredom set in. I started word-doodling in my notebook, creating neologisms and writing down odd sentences. One of which was: "Hello," said the stick.

Huh, I thought. That's intriguing. It would make a good first sentence for a story.

So, while the reading droned on, I played around with the notion. By the end of the evening, I had a couple of paragraphs and a good idea of the plot. I borrowed the idea of mercenaries fighting with weapons well below their culture's technological level from Larry Niven's "Night on Mispec Moor," and his clean, lean, stripped-down prose style as well.

The next morning was a Saturday. After breakfast, I said to Marianne, "I think I'll spend the day writing, if that's okay with you."

"Have fun," she said.

So I went to my office, wrote the story, and dropped it in the mail to Analog before the post office closed at 2 that afternoon. From original conception to actual submission in a grand total of eighteen hours -- and I got to sleep in late in between!

Oh, yeah, and it made it onto the Hugo ballot."

Bastard.

Mr. Tweedy wrote:Bastard.

agreed. it must be nice to just whip up a story off the cuff and have it sent out before tea time..

Not that I'm comparing myself to Hugo nominee, but my drabbles that get the best response are the ones that are the fastest and easiest to write, so that doesn't actually surprise me.

yea i suppose that some of the best art is not planned... it just happens

myke_deschain wrote:yea i suppose that some of the best art is not planned... it just happens

Like the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Yup. OK, maybe that's not the best example...