A random title for your next blockbuster novel or Pulitzer Prize short story:What to Expect When Your Expecting Beelzebub's Baby
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"@Mohamed, let me know what you think. The editing is great. However, the acting not so much, with the exception possibly of Eugene Roche." Read more by Unpublished Guy on When Movies are Better than Books
"Being that "Slaughterhouse 5" is one of my favorite novels of all time, I can't imagine a movie being better than the book. That said, I thought that the movie adaptation of "Mother Night" was pretty darn good! Based on your recommendation, I'll give the S-5 movie a look." Read more by Mohamed Mughal on When Movies are Better than Books
Nearly serious fiction related diversions for the casual or more active writer.
All the Starring Characters in Lost
Low-resolution picture of Slaughterhouse-Five movie poster.An example of a movie that was better than the book?
Often I find writing to be a thoroughly unenjoyable task. It's no wonder I haven't published anything when I can't finish writing anything. Even when I employ the Mashed Potato Method of fiction writing, I get stuck where I just start thinking too much. Right about step three when the writing starts getting more detail-oriented. Then the mental debates begin—about word choice, sentence order and structure, sorting through underlying meanings and symbolism that begin to surface and whether I should develop them. Completing the short story starts feeling like I am working on an assembly line gutting chickens with arthritic hands that are seizing up into in some malformed claws. Except in the case of writing it is my brain that gets knotted up.
Chicken Processing Assembly Line as Metaphor for Writing Cerebral Fictionsource: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-405105/Chicken-factory-workers-better-battery-hens.html