There’s a saying: “Life sucks, and then you die.” But for Marvin, this truth was made more bitter by how it monopolized 10% of his lifespan. How unfair! Getting stuck in a short story sucks, sure, but it happened to lots of people, and they managed to accomplish something anyway in their brief lives. But Marvin had the misfortune to land in a drabble, and his writer had already wasted most of his precious 100 words on too many adjectives and adverbs.
“Please, lady!” Marvin pleaded as his death approached. “Let me do something before I die! Write verbs! Verbs!”
Life's Short, So Write Verbs
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Poor Marvin...
Congrats on another great one, Varda.
Congrats on another great one, Varda.
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Re: Life's Short, So Write Verbs
Oh this was a treat...the painful mortality of the disposable fiction. Unnecessary existential thought in melodramatic voice : How do we know that we're not all characters in a drabble, that our lives are considered the length of a drabble to some greater being with a short attention span? Quickly, people - do verbs! Do verbs fast!
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Thanks guys! This was my writer's conscience paging me to say that Bad Writing Kills. Delete those extra words, or else Marvin's destined to have an unfulfilled life where he did nothing but wait for the story to start.
Moral of the story: if you're going to get stuck in a drabble, you don't want to be stuck in one of mine. Try Dr. B's -- he might give you super powers. Mine tend to result in brain parasites.
Moral of the story: if you're going to get stuck in a drabble, you don't want to be stuck in one of mine. Try Dr. B's -- he might give you super powers. Mine tend to result in brain parasites.
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♫ I get my thing in action ♫
VERB! That's what's happening ♫
VERB! That's what's happening ♫