Rejected Writing Notes

[demiurgent]

• Theftworld needs Zazz. Also, tits. Allusions to nudity in Libby's past is a good start, but maybe define her planet as all nude all the time. I need to think about potential movie and TV options, after all.
• Perhaps give Leather an adorable Monkey sidekick? Who doesn't like adorable Monkey sidekicks.
• New myth topics: 'No, why don't you shut your goddamn mouth?' 'Why are writers originally from northern Maine are so much sexier and better than you are?' 'Why are whores so totally awesome?' 'Who exactly did die and make me God.'
• Back to Theftworld. There must be a way to put a monkey in the cast. A space monkey. Maybe replace Tam Abbot with a Monkey? Would anyone notice?
• Possible sequel? Leather becomes a Supreme Court Justice! Consider comedic potential in gavel jokes and PVC robes.
• Dude! "Why are Monkeys awesome?" That myth writes itself!.
• Running low on old crap gems to run on Wednesdays. Consider plagiarism. Or do what the RPG companies do and announce a 'contest' where people send me stories and agree to sign releases that give me all rights including the right to claim I wrote it.
• Sherlock Holmes, Oliver Twist and Lady Chatterley are all in the public domain. They could totally fight crime! And be married! And own a monkey!
• Chad Underkoffler says he's the Monkey King, but he hasn't published a Monkey King RPG yet. Total chance to get to press first here.
• Theftworld still lacks Zazz. Maybe rename Sacreae Chairman Baris Bilton and give her a small dog? Consider the potential biting satire?
• Consider mind numbing ego driven hyperemo essay about the pain of being a writer. That won't help now, but fifty years from now it's my key into the Norton Anthology of American Literature.
• Maybe do a Gossamer Commons thing with a fistfight on top of a moving train? There must be something in Celtic myths about fistfights on moving trains.
• No, wait. Have Leather accidentally be given a Fulbright Scholarship. Call it 'Leather Abroad' and claim I didn't mean the pun.
• God, I need more coffee. And maybe I should start smoking. Wait! That's it! Total short story about how someone only manages to write when he takes up bad habits, dying early but gaining literary immortality! No one's ever done that.
• Screw it. Everyone's a monkey. A naked monkey. Now that's zazz, god damn it.

Comments

[fadethecat.livejournal.com]

Ever since I saw the card in Super Munchkin, I have wanted to make a superhero character with a monkey sidekick who wears the same costume. Monkey sidekicks are awesome.

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

"Monkey monkey monkey!" - Trypticon X

[darthparadox.livejournal.com]

Well, you could always run with the smoking idea, making the "monkey on your back" metaphor into a literal monkey. No one's ever done that either!

[slarti.livejournal.com]

As everyone knows, a monkey, ape, gorilla, etc. on the cover of a comic will sell better. So, yeah, go with the monkeys, good sir. :-)

[mephron]

Maybe do a Gossamer Commons thing with a fistfight on top of a moving train? There must be something in Celtic myths about fistfights on moving trains.

....well, you can modify duels in chariots?

[wednesday]

There must be something in Celtic myths about fistfights on moving trains.

So, uh, that book what got packed in one or two trips up ago? You should go look in the Welsh bit. It's close enough.

Why are whores so totally awesome?

So, how convincingly can you do an Annie Sprinkle or Scarlet Harlot impression?

[chadu.livejournal.com]

Chad Underkoffler says he's the Monkey King, but he hasn't published a Monkey King RPG yet. Total chance to get to press first here.

Oh, it's SO on now.

Would Sun Wukong make you happy, mang?

(There are Monkey Kings in Monkey, Ninja, Pirate, Robot: the RPG, btw.)

CU

[scarfman]

The next Modern Myth a crossover with Dragonball Z? Nah I got nuthin.

[miyaa99.livejournal.com]

Maybe it would work better if you included a killer chinchilla instead of going all monkey? It's just the Monty Python bit about vorpal rabbit, but with an unlikely animal.

[(Anonymous)]

Monkeys are so last year, man.

What's cool now?

Otters.

So I hear, anyway.

Andy