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 Read more by Unpublished Guy on When Movies are Better than Books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.
How might Franz Kafka, today, with access to psychoactive medications rewrite his best known short story, The Metamorphosis? It might start something like this if he had also developed an appreciation for theories of web usability.
One morning (this morning, in fact) as I, Gerald Freund, was waking up from pleasant dreams, I discovered that in my mouse bedding I had been changed into the king of usablity, Jakob Nielsen. I lay on my naked back and saw, as I lifted my head up a little, my fleshy abdomen. Now that I was human sized, the blanket that had constituted my mouse bedding, just barely swaddled my buttocks and could hardly cover my body.