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Continue reading →: The Exhausted LandI have a new story idea about something real and old. An actual place with its history as a stage but with fictional characters and events. Working title “The Exhausted Land.” It would be about a derelict warehouse listed for sale at an outrageous price. It had sat neglected for…
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Continue reading →: Immersion without TravelingUnlike some writers who are geniuses and live IRL in the setting of the book during drafting, I am unlikely to do so. It lets them fashion the location into a character within their books. Edward Cline and Richard Gleaves are my favorite examples of such. My recently discovered cheat…
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Continue reading →: Boarding HouseOne place that I recently look to as inspiration for story ideas is Zillow. Essentially looking at an interesting home for sale and coming up with a story about it. Architecture as a stage. So, I recently got an email about one property that took an 18% list price cut.…
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Continue reading →: Alien AbductionAs one does, I talk to Copilot about the rise of peonage slave labor in the US through illegal immigration. Something that polite people don’t talk about, the return of slavery to the US under Democrat Party protection. Consequently, I had an idea for a modern Uncle Tom’s Cabin adapted…
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Continue reading →: Make Parlors Great AgainAs a kid, I enjoyed visiting the old Iowa farmhouse where my great grandparents lived. Not modern as it had an outhouse, wood burning stove for cooking, a handpump for well water in the kitchen. A practical and functional home. It also had a parlor with elegant furnishing in stark…
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Continue reading →: Cosmetic HauntingSandman had an interesting news bit about women getting fat from dead people injected into their butts as cosmetic surgery. He joked that posterior would be haunted. That might make for an interesting story premise for a horror story. A woman indulges in cosmetic surgery; some bits sourced from the…
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Continue reading →: Funding AdoptionsNew story idea involving the High Patriarchy Council. Stories involving the HPC exist in my Mansplaining genre and are intended as humorous and naughty but illustrating a point. The HPC is a satirical device on the idea that a conspiracy between men exist to exclude women from important decision making.…
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Continue reading →: Scaling the MessageI started a conversation with Copilot on a question regarding how reliable paternity testing changed young men’s perspective regarding relationships, including the cultural impact of Maury Povich saying “You are NOT the father.” This led into discussing the contemporary collapse of dating, marriage and birth rates. I observed “The trillion…
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Continue reading →: Fault in DivorceA new story idea featuring a return of the High Patriarchy Council. They are a body of men who meet secretly without women to solve societal problems created by women. (Offensive? It is called humor.) The issue at hand was a deliberation over the high cost of no-fault divorce. They…
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Continue reading →: His New MaidNew story idea. It started with questions about why there aren’t domestic servants today contrasted with the past. Given feminist complaints about “emotional labor” and a lack of childcare options for working mothers it seems like there is a unmet demand. Further, the feminist idea of women’s unpaid labor in…
