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clarity_jane
08-16-2005, 10:55 AM
Are you stuck for ideas? For years -- since before there was a steeple in Schenectady, or even a Schenectady, people have been asking writers, Where do you get your ideas? Now, at long last and at considerable personal risk, the answer can be revealed: The primum inter pares source for fiction ideas is a post office box in Schenectady. We send our money in and ideas come back via return mail. It's been that way for generations, but the time has come for a change. . .

The little old lady in Schenectady (no relation to the little old lady from Pasadena) has gone electric, electronic, and on to the Internet. All you have to do is put your cursor over the hot-link and the little old lady from Schenectady will climb to the top of the tallest steeple in the city and cast her collection of baboon knuckle-bones for you, just as she's been doing it for generations of published fiction writers.

http://www.lynnabbey.com/html/steeplespeaks.htm

pianoman5
08-16-2005, 11:57 AM
Cool. At last I can cancel my subscription to 'Ideas Monthly' magazine. I know Chaucer, Dickens, Hemingway and Faulkner all swore by it, but as Ian McEwen and I agreed the other day, it's just not cutting it lately.

Aconite
08-16-2005, 06:18 PM
Harlan didn't tell any of us about this. I feel betrayed.

JERETHAL
08-16-2005, 10:23 PM
I thought there was nothing new under the sun? Someone said that there is no such thing as an original idea. People are afraid of new ideas for some reason. Maybe because it is unfamiliar. When printing was new, there were alot of people who lost their heads and got burned at the stake for new ideas. Many a writer and publisher have been executed for what they wrote.

LightShadow
08-17-2005, 05:26 AM
Stuck for ideas? What does that mean? I'm never stuck for ideas. The old bowl produces new flavors of cookie dough every time I go to the kitchen. I've got a cabinet drawer full of them. Okay, I admit it, though, most of them suck or are too farfetched. But just when you think you have plenty, a new one appears - and this one has raisins and chocolate chips!