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Aug 04, 2008 21:56

A long time ago, I used to do a lot of creative writing. Long, sprawling stories. In the summer between 8th and 9th grades, I wrote an actual book--not a very good one, but over a hundred word-processed pages. But now? Nuttin'. The only fiction I write now is what comes out of my brain when riffing off other people. Like this:

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unsi_sempai August 5 2008, 13:17:00 UTC
Detective Horse!

No wait I mean I thought up this word a few years back (or maybe Nate did? It sounds like a Nate thing to say): Fightwriter. Write about Fightwriter!

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unsi_sempai August 5 2008, 13:18:46 UTC
(p.s. here is the story, I wasn't crazy: Escaped Horse Gallops Up Interstate 95.)

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tragic_ohara August 5 2008, 14:23:38 UTC
I thought of it, actually; the original joke was that since the pen is mightier than the sword, he fights with a pen (or maybe a pen and a sword, which I think is funnier).

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unsi_sempai August 5 2008, 15:12:01 UTC
dang, that was it. I've been wondering where that came from for YEARS

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tragic_ohara August 5 2008, 16:17:58 UTC
We were also hanging out with Nate at the time, which is probably why you were connecting it to him. Man, why do I remember this so well?

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librarybrandy August 5 2008, 15:18:53 UTC
Huh. This is a completely different direction from where I went. And I went in a direction that I didn't mean to go in. (My original plan for Fightwriter was a rather bland character, a mediocre sports journalist sent to cover two-bit boxing matches.)

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Fightwriter librarybrandy August 5 2008, 15:17:02 UTC
Fightwriter? Not being privy to the original conversation, it’s hard to know exactly what (or who) Fightwriter is ( ... )

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For Summer: Detective Horse (& Professor Horse!) librarybrandy August 5 2008, 17:11:23 UTC
A light tapping at the door. I look up. The interruption is irritating, but probably less so than the interrupter. The door opens. It’s a woman. The worst kind of interruption. I take a drink ( ... )

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Re: For Summer: Detective Horse (& Professor Horse!) unsi_sempai August 5 2008, 17:41:15 UTC
ehehehehehehe

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