Give idea, get story (now with 20% more Haggis!) - Update: Hardback cover book

[Silverwolfpet]

Returning from the grave can be considered spamming.

...I'll just let this one slide.

[RetroVortex]

As long as you try not to give us any love bites:

I'll just let this one slide...

[Silverwolfpet]

hehe

[Haggis]

Originally Posted by RetroVortex

As long as you try not to give us any love bites

Oh, there's an idea! Any takers?

Meanwhile, I've written another story, yay! http://bouffonbooks.com/2012/05/17/the-stick-exchange/

[tbm1986]

Originally Posted by Haggis

Oh, there's an idea! Any takers?

Meanwhile, I've written another story, yay! http://bouffonbooks.com/2012/05/17/the-stick-exchange/

It certainly makes a case for socialism over capitalism.

[Haggis]

Originally Posted by tbm1986

It certainly makes a case for socialism over capitalism.

Not wanting to turn this into a political discussion... did you like the story?

Also, here's a new one: http://bouffonbooks.com/2012/05/24/j...-magic-bullet/

It's the longest one yet, and it introduces a character (a detective) that may turn up in other stories as well. Please give feedback as to whether you like her! Thanks!

[tbm1986]

Originally Posted by Haggis

Not wanting to turn this into a political discussion... did you like the story?

Also, here's a new one: http://bouffonbooks.com/2012/05/24/j...-magic-bullet/

It's the longest one yet, and it introduces a character (a detective) that may turn up in other stories as well. Please give feedback as to whether you like her! Thanks!

Yes, I thought it was excellent, but not as good as the murder mystery. You've made a mistake in allowing us to give 5 stars maximum.

[GaryCXJk]

For a short time, I thought you were talking about this magic bullet:

[WarpSpeed]

I'm not sure if I like her or not. One story wasn't enough to get any serious attachment to her. If you put her in another story, we should find out more to further develop her character. A strong flashback to some personal moment in her life might help. One little phrase about her father being an abusive alcoholic isn't enough. Show us.

By the way, terminal velocity for a bullet is still quite fatal. That's why they tell you not to fire your gun in the air on New Year's Eve, because the bullet can still come down and kill someone. I like the window idea better than the skylight anyway, though.

[ted12]

More of this, please. with more ridiculous deaths! Impaling a victim on a skyscraper should be a sufficiently insane start.

[Haggis]

Originally Posted by tbm1986

Yes, I thought it was excellent, but not as good as the murder mystery. You've made a mistake in allowing us to give 5 stars maximum.

Thanks! Although the only problem around that conundrum is to allow infinite star ratings, but I don't think my web host will be up to that task.

Originally Posted by GaryCXJk

For a short time, I thought you were talking about this magic bullet:
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Heh, that would make for an interesting element in a murder mystery...

Originally Posted by WarpSpeed

I'm not sure if I like her or not. One story wasn't enough to get any serious attachment to her. If you put her in another story, we should find out more to further develop her character. A strong flashback to some personal moment in her life might help. One little phrase about her father being an abusive alcoholic isn't enough. Show us.

Understood. This was pretty much only a sketch, and an exploration, to see if I'm any good at writing murder mysteries. Should I ever dedicate a book to Jewel Friedman, I'll be sure to shed some more light on her private life.

By the way, terminal velocity for a bullet is still quite fatal. That's why they tell you not to fire your gun in the air on New Year's Eve, because the bullet can still come down and kill someone. I like the window idea better than the skylight anyway, though.

Ah, but the thing with that is, if a bullet is shot into the sky, it tends to follow a ballistic trajectory, which means it still has sufficient speed when it comes down, and it enters the body tip first. If you just drop a bullet without shooting it, it might not be fatal. But I'm glad you like this idea better.

Originally Posted by ted12

More of this, please. with more ridiculous deaths! Impaling a victim on a skyscraper should be a sufficiently insane start.

Oh, that sounds like a great idea, I'm adding it to my list.

Also, here's your narwhal story: http://bouffonbooks.com/2012/06/04/t...ar-of-destiny/

[Alcoremortis]

Originally Posted by WarpSpeed

By the way, terminal velocity for a bullet is still quite fatal. That's why they tell you not to fire your gun in the air on New Year's Eve, because the bullet can still come down and kill someone. I like the window idea better than the skylight anyway, though.

Not sure if I need to spoiler tag this, but whatever. I always wondered about this, especially in movies where everyone seems to fire their gun in the air willy nilly. It always seemed to me that they should have been looking for cover afterwards or something.

[WarpSpeed]

Originally Posted by Alcoremortis

Not sure if I need to spoiler tag this, but whatever. I always wondered about this, especially in movies where everyone seems to fire their gun in the air willy nilly. It always seemed to me that they should have been looking for cover afterwards or something.

I think we need to write a comedy Western now.

[Haggis]

Pfffff... I think this must be the longest one yet... http://bouffonbooks.com/2012/06/11/j...-order-murder/

Originally Posted by Alcoremortis

Not sure if I need to spoiler tag this, but whatever. I always wondered about this, especially in movies where everyone seems to fire their gun in the air willy nilly. It always seemed to me that they should have been looking for cover afterwards or something.

Not to be a combo breaker, I'll use spoiler tags as well:

The thing with that is, unless they shoot straight up into the air, the bullet is unlikely to come down near them. In fact, it could come down miles away, since it follows a ballistic trajectory. If they do shoot straight up and the bullet comes straight down, again, it'll probably tumble in mid air, reaching terminal velocity. If they then put a bucket on their head they should be safe already.

Originally Posted by WarpSpeed

I think we need to write a comedy Western now.

Good idea. Any specific wishes?

[RetroVortex]

Here's an idea:

A story about the fourth wall breaking.

Make of that what you will! XD

[Darth Marsden]

OK, now I want a superhero story where the bad guy is a giant alien destroying a city and the hero has to defeat it by picking up a skyscraper and impaling the alien with it. Stupid ted12 giving me ideas...

[RetroVortex]

Originally Posted by Darth Marsden

OK, now I want a superhero story where the bad guy is a giant alien destroying a city and the hero has to defeat it by picking up a skyscraper and impaling the alien with it. Stupid ted12 giving me ideas...

OK, now I want a supervillain story where the good guy is some super buff human jerk that is trying to stop the villain from destroying the city by trying to impale him with a skyscraper... Stupid Darth Marsden giving me ideas... ;p

[Darth Marsden]

Originally Posted by RetroVortex

OK, now I want a supervillain story where the good guy is some super buff human jerk that is trying to stop the villain from destroying the city by trying to impale him with a skyscraper... Stupid Darth Marsden giving me ideas... ;p

OK, now I want a supervillain story where the good guy is some steroid-abusing super-buff human jerk who can't hold a job and has an abusive relationship with a 30 year old waitress from Texas who dares him to something useful with his life by actually doing something about an evil giant alien who's destroying the city because the government won't stop sending probes into its galaxy and disrupting its TV signals and the jerk ends up stopping the alien by using a skyscraper as a spear and impales him with it and then gets arrested for destroying public property as the waitress finally leaves him for a g-man who swoops her off her feet.

Stupid RetroVortex giving me ideas...

[RetroVortex]

Originally Posted by Darth Marsden

OK, now I want a supervillain story where the good guy is some steroid-abusing super-buff human jerk who can't hold a job and has an abusive relationship with a 30 year old waitress from Texas who dares him to something useful with his life by actually doing something about an evil giant alien who's destroying the city because the government won't stop sending probes into its galaxy and disrupting its TV signals and the jerk ends up stopping the alien by using a skyscraper as a spear and impales him with it and then gets arrested for destroying public property as the waitress finally leaves him for a g-man who swoops her off her feet.

Stupid RetroVortex giving me ideas...

HAHA!

An absurd super hero story told from the perspectives of the hero and the villain.

Now that would be an interesting tale!

(Throw in a Shamalanian twist at the end for good measure too! XD)

[Darth Marsden]

Or, if you want to be really meta, told via the mediums of reports made by the human's psychiatric consultant while he's in jail and the alien reporting back to his commander on his home planet.

Y'know what? Screw Haggis, I'm writing this myself! Best-seller, here I come!