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Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Reader Feedback
So I'm going to cheat this week.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. *covering ears and mumbling* Pirate.
In the world of fiction writing the only feedback we get are through our readers. May it be critique partners, writing groups, reading groups, girlfriend sleepovers, trusted family members, a random person sitting beside you at the library- whatever, it doesn't matter- forget the details. What matters here is that these people you let into your world they are all readers, voyeurs into the world you've created for your characters and they are who helps you decide if what you're doing is actually working or not. Feedback invaluable to a writing career. It helps grow character. Or atleast that's what I like to tell myself while I'm huddled up in the dark thinking of new ways to torture someone.
Since, I think one of the most important aspects of a writer's perspectives is what they gain from reader feedback that's why I'm coming to you today. I may not be published. Hell, I may not have even finished a manuscript yet, but I write these blogs every week and I want to hear from you. You've faithfully stepped on board the ship every weekday for almost a year and you've heard us talk about a variety of things. What do you want to read about? What makes you want to respond to our outlandish antics? Is it a particular subject or topic, or is it how you relate to someone else?
So let me have it. What topic in regards to reading, writing and the such do you want me to blog about? What would you like to see me discuss in my own pathetically weird way on Wednesdays?
This is your time to use your voice. Though, you might need to yell over the commotion. I have a feeling the capt'n is going to have a conniption.
Anything you throw out there, as long as it's deemed readable materal for a open form blog, I will write about and discuss on my blog days. So it's all up to you today. Good luck.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. *covering ears and mumbling* Pirate.
In the world of fiction writing the only feedback we get are through our readers. May it be critique partners, writing groups, reading groups, girlfriend sleepovers, trusted family members, a random person sitting beside you at the library- whatever, it doesn't matter- forget the details. What matters here is that these people you let into your world they are all readers, voyeurs into the world you've created for your characters and they are who helps you decide if what you're doing is actually working or not. Feedback invaluable to a writing career. It helps grow character. Or atleast that's what I like to tell myself while I'm huddled up in the dark thinking of new ways to torture someone.
Since, I think one of the most important aspects of a writer's perspectives is what they gain from reader feedback that's why I'm coming to you today. I may not be published. Hell, I may not have even finished a manuscript yet, but I write these blogs every week and I want to hear from you. You've faithfully stepped on board the ship every weekday for almost a year and you've heard us talk about a variety of things. What do you want to read about? What makes you want to respond to our outlandish antics? Is it a particular subject or topic, or is it how you relate to someone else?
So let me have it. What topic in regards to reading, writing and the such do you want me to blog about? What would you like to see me discuss in my own pathetically weird way on Wednesdays?
This is your time to use your voice. Though, you might need to yell over the commotion. I have a feeling the capt'n is going to have a conniption.
Anything you throw out there, as long as it's deemed readable materal for a open form blog, I will write about and discuss on my blog days. So it's all up to you today. Good luck.
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Sin, I had to use google to discover that a conniption is a rage. The word isn't in my favourite dictionary. I won it years ago as a school prize so that's further evidence that I must be ageing. :shock:
The basic laws of physics (excluding thermodynamics) are time reversible, suggesting that I could get younger....still working on it!
Dear Sin, I want to read more about your thoughts on love, the universe and writing. In England I'm a great fan of 'The Archers'. Its a 15 min evolving radio drama, broadcast everyday for the past 50 odd years, described as 'an everyday story of country folk'. I want your blog to be a 'weekly story of writing folk'.
Over the past year I have built up this vision of a beautiful soul struggling with the torments of existence as she claws her way toward the nirvana of a published book. The English always love an underdog so in a strange way I want time to stand still so that you continue in the same way, each week adding new brush strokes to my delightful picture.
Until you publish that book and move to a higher plane, please Sin, just give us more of the same. There are still so many gaps in my lovely vision of Sin :D
God this coffee has gone cold!
Oh gah, Sin! Talk about putting a girl on the spot.:)
I like the things you choose to blog about each week. You always have something interesting to say and a great perspective on life, writing, and other things to offer. And your humor is infectious.(Can you tell I have a very high opinion of you?)
Ok, but I'll try to think of something. I agree with Quantum- who I think is fantastic and sounds so sweet! He really hit the nail on the head when it comes to you.
I think you should blog about...
Well, maybe your opinion on books. Maybe offer commentary on people's low opinion of romance. You could do a 'Sin Recommends' kinda thing, where you just talk about different things you like(doesn't even have to relate to writing. You can suggest your favorite toothpick for all I care.lol). Uh... you could put up debate topics? IDK,Sin, I'm at a loss. If I think of anything good I'll be sure and come back.
I'll tell you what to blog about if you tell me, LOL. It's almost 2 years for me (Dec.31, 2006) and I just may be running out of ideas...
No one said we could take a poll! I didn't know I could just ask for ideas. I'd have done this months ago! LOL! Especially since I'm the worst blogger here. LOL!
Obviously, the bad boy is the most popular topic around here. And pretty much any writing blog. The Alpha is, well, the alpha topic. And we all know Sin is the expert on this subject.
I'd love to see you go deeper on the topic of Alpha females though. I know that description would fit your heroines (and you!) so I'd love to read your take on them.
I think it would also be fun to read about the stuff you've come across in your research. How to blow things up. How to hack into a major computer network. The quickest and cleanest way to kill people. I'm just guessing on your research here. Am I close? LOL!
Ter - you're not the worst blogger here.... I'm corner that market.
LOL! I have this same problem! Though I do think blogging helps me to think of things in different ways. It's an exercise in creativity.
Girl, I'm not helping you out. LOL! You always do so well on your own....
Honestly, I had a blog topic but then realized yesterday that I need an extra week to work on it so I went for the scramble. Not my best scramble but I thought it would be fun to see what you guys might have. I feel like a broken record every week.
And that's EVERY week!
I'm done typing today.
You don't sound like a broken record.... You give a convincing rendition of originality ever week.
Oh and I meant "cornering" about. Yeesh.
Dude, the only conniption fit I'm having is that I didn't do this blog first. You guys are out of ideas. *scoffing sound*
I do like Q's suggestion of SLICE OF LIFE blogs...that does fit you, and you do pain well. You'll make the rest of us feel better about our writing lives; and that's all we want anyway. *LOL*
But being I *am* a pirate, I'm hijacking the blog on behalf of the whole crew: What would you want to see more of in regards to the whole blogging crew? More slice of life? More song parodies? More techie advice? More guests? More...?
*throwing empty rum bottles at both Terri and Marnee* You guys are NOT the worst blogger here. Oh, you better keep ducking! I'm not out of bottles yet! And I'll get out the cat-o-nines next...and the beatings WILL continue until morale improves.
Morale, Sin, not Morals--no freaking out.
*ducks a third bottle*
Look at the numbers. That's all I'm sayin'...
Marn - You're cracking me up!
I'd say more sex, but that's redundant.
I talked sex a couple weeks ago.... Seemed to appease the masses.
Q- Don't you dare tell on me but you made me go a little misty eyed. I never cry. I don't even know if my mascara is waterproof. After that comment I don't ever want to go away. I'm going to remain a faithful Q groupie for the rest of my life, batting my eyelashes like a silly schoolgirl in hopes that you flash me just one dangerous smile to make my life complete.
Conniption is like a southern root word. My mama always used it when we were little and throwing a hissy fit. You can have a conniption over almost anything. Especially if the rabbit gets in the strawberry patch and destroys it. Or the raccoons get into the dog food, even though you've painstakingly went to the trouble to outsmart those little devils. Or you can have a conniption that your 15 YO is out running around at all hours of the night with a boy whose 18 and owns his own car. *grin* Not that I'd done anything like that as a kid.
I love radio dramas! I always have this romantic vision in my head of the 40's and 50's of a family sitting around the radio while their stories come on. Stories of love and sacrifice and hair-raising adventures. Death defying stunts in war planes with the Red Baron. (Which sometimes I envision as Snoopy.)
A blog story every Wednesday could be a lot of fun. I mean, it would surely get my muse going.
And it's funny you mention the underdog. I'm a fan of the underdog myself.
Kelly, I adore you, you little minx. Especially when you say such nice things. *fluffing hair*
LOL. I never thought anyone would ever hold a high opinion of me.
I could do a little segment on books each week to end my blog. Like maybe a Sin recommends: The Devil Inside- Jenna Black. And then maybe a brief synopsis on why I liked it so much and if there are any follow up books to that one. Very good idea Kelly!
Maggie... cheater. LOL
Okay, Maggie, I challenge you to write about.. hm..
This is me.
This is me trying to think... *insert lots of dirty words*
Talk about how writing has changed you as a person.
Memories that have led you down the road you've taken now with your writing.
How past loves have influenced your romance writing.
Hell, I don't know. I suck at finding blog topics. When I manage to write a blog that makes sense, I normally am so far off from my original idea that it doesn't sound anything like I wanted it to in the first place. Or it moves from one subject to one on the complete opposite of the spectrum.
Hm, this is true Ter. I've talked about the Alpha male but I really haven't gone into my alpha female characters or what I think makes them alpha (other than being able to take care of themselves.) Great topic suggestion.
And you might find this interesting to know, but I don't do much research at all. LMAO. Not at blowing things up (I can still remember the smell of gunpowder from blowing up fireworks as a kid.) The way to crack into a computer firewall (is easy because I crack ours everyday to fix issues.) Other computer issues, I can ask my dad and instead of giving me a straight answer, it's usually showing me instead. And everyone knows the quickest way to kill is with a gun with a silencer. Did you know that you could use a potato cut in half over the end of a gun as a silencer? I would think the cleanest way to kill would be strangulation. It certainly wouldn't be the easiest, but it's not quite as easy to break someone's neck as they make it out to be in the movies. You gotta be pretty strong.
Marn, as much as I like to bitch about how I suck at writing the blogs, the truth is, none of us suck at writing them. We all have our different opinions and views on the same subject and we all have different writing styles. Doesn't mean any of us suck or are the weakest writer on the blog, we just see it that way because in our minds we're never better than the next writer sitting beside us. Or in this case, sharing the grog bottle with.
Usually writing the blog is an exercise in clearing my conscience of whatever is plaguing me that day. It's very unusual for me to pull something out of thin air and write about. I need inspiration for my blogs and my subconscience does that for me.
Hellion- I jokingly said a couple of months ago that I was going to do this blog and forgot all about it. It's not like we all can't do a blog like this. You're clever. Just word it differently and into a song.
The problem with answering your question, Sin, is that too many of us are just as desperately scrambling for topics for our own blogs. LOL!
I visit the ship almost every day because I love the honesty, the humor, the irreverence, and the comraderie here. I'm convinced that you pirates could blog about the annual rainfall in the U.S. and turn it into something funny and probably something that would shock my staid old heart. :)
I like it as it is! And I always know when it's you blogging QC, no need to check, I recognize your voice. Until this blog I basically thought that writers sat at their desk in the morning, typed their little fingers away to tell the story they had in their head, then sent it to a publisher and BAM! there it was on my bookshelf. Looks it not that simple...There's a lot of blood and sweat (and rum) involved. I guess it's changed the way I read.
Oh yeah one thing is missing though: rum. Apparently pirates aren't big on sharing ..
*LOL* Janga, there is nothing staid or old about you, let alone your heart!
Sin, does it make me a bad person that all your talk about different ways to kill people cracked me up?lol. Just hysterical!
*Julie stumbles across the ship’s deck as the vessel pitches up & down in the wild, rolling seas.*
Uhhhhh
Whoa
I think that I’m a little stunned. A little dizzy.
Cuz No body.
NO BODY
Has ever asked me to just Throw Anything out there. Or given me permission too Say What I really want… To talk about... Are you Crazy? Have you completely lost your Mind? That’s it isn’t it.
Yes.
You’re Nuts.
Cool.
OK. Uhh… I have an idea for a blog. How about discussing how writing makes writers crazy? Or in some cases, Crazy-ER!
Kelly - I'm glad it cracked you up. It made me seriously nervous. Her cabin isn't far from mine!
Janga, girlfriend, please. We know you better than that. There's nothing that we pirates can dish out that you can't top. And we sure as hell can't shock you. Like Hellion said, there's nothing staid about you. Pretending doesn't count. LOL
Stef, you know my voice because you've listened to me giggle on the phone for 10 minutes. LOL But that's a wonderful compliment on my writing ability. The ability to know it's me just by reading something. I guess I just don't recognize it in my own writing because I always hear myself say what I'm typing.
PS. I'll share my rum with you but you can't tell on me. I've used up my ration and now I'm pirating it from the reserves.
Jules, you know I love when you just come out with it.
And yes, I meant that in the sense we were talking about yesterday.
*grin* Have some rum girlfriend and enjoy the ride. It's not often the hose has more stamina that you.
I have to agree with Kelli, Sin. There is something about you that seems infectious. Like the Plague. Yah that’s it! Your voice is like the plague… Dark… a little scary… painful. It gets under our skin. We cannot escape it. It infects us with your vision of the world. And we are forever scared by your words… your touch… just like…
The Plague.
“I mean that in a good way of course,’ says Julie as she sprays the room with Lysol.
Kelly, I can see I'm gonna have to do this blog next week- The multiply ways the Feds could lock me up- or AKA How to kill your characters in various fashions.
LMAO
Don't worry Ter. I've never thought about using you as research. I couldn't do anything like that on the ship. I'd be the one everyone would look at first regardless if I did it or NOT!
Yeesh. This is what happens when you tattle on yourself.
But seriously, how cool is the potato thing?
Jules, I don't know whether to be offended or try to hug you for your sincerity. But I don't want to smell like clean breeze Lysol all day so I'm staying away from you.
I haven't got painful yet. I try to keep that locked in a box like Pandora's curse. And scary. Hm, I don't think I've really let that go yet either. I like scary things. Things that I guess are scary to other people but I welcome it like it's long lost sister. Maybe I'll dig in deep for a blog and get thoughtful and reflective. I just think it's better for everyone else if I don't.
The whole potato thing begs the question(and since you're so qualified, answering this quandry falls to you, Sin): Can you kill someone with a potato shooter?
Huh, that question makes it sound like I'm planning to kill someone with a potato shooter...You bring out the weird in me, Sin.
Hm, Kelly. Are we talking a homemade potato shooter? Or one of those wussy store bought ones? Did you know that you can modify almost anything weapon like from the store into something deadly? I think I watched an episode of MythBusters on the potato shooting thing and at the velosity rate that the potato shoots out of the cannon it's not deadly but it packs enough punch to break ribs and knock the breath out of you. You could probably shoot someone in the back of the head with one and knock them out and give them a pretty bad concussion.
Honestly, anything with a barrel end can be made into something deadly. You just got to know how to modify it right.
I don't know about paint guns. I guess I could email my cousin. He runs in some profession paint gun group. They go out to the desert and shoot each other. I think I'd be more worried about rattlers than paint balls.
Sin there is public.
And then there is
PUBLIC!
And I do try to behave in PUBLIC. Usually.
Although…I will be taking off my bra today... sort-of in public.
Talk about “just coming out with It”. Or should I say them?
Yep. I have to get a mammogram today. How long since the rest of you have had your breasts examined? ( DH’s & boyfriends don’t count). To long? Never? Make an appointment today. Right Now.
Gosh
Isn’t it National Breast Cancer Awareness Month?
Sin - the potato thing is totally cool. And I think I heard that somewhere before. Which makes me wonder where in the hell I would have heard something like that?!
And I can say that I've sort of done the paint ball research. Involuntarily anyway. I was once walking along the road as a teen when some nitwit decided to shoot me in the ass with a paint ball. Hurt like hell, but didn't kill me. :)
Sure boyfriends count for breast exams...haven't you noticed how THOROUGH they are about breasts? And they'll check daily if you give them the option. Your HMO won't do that.
Julie - I read the way you wrote PUBLIC the way Ron White talks about being drunk in PUBLIC. LOL! Oh, I love that bit.
They call me Tater.....
The girls have had a serious lack of attention lately. But I'm not sure they'd thank me for smooshing them in a vice. I'll think about it.
You guys are cracking me up today. This could be a whole blog post: how to turn everyday household items into deadly weapons. Or a weekly continuing post. Today, the blender. Next week, the remote control. lol.
Sin
I am of course teasing you
And
I am of course quite Sincere in my praise for your Writing. It is unique. It can be dark. You don’t eviscerate your stories. So they often touch a nerve. And always…
They make me think.
Gosh Hellion…. My DH always wanders off course. Maybe I need a compass tattooed on my chest?
Jules, I'm glad the blogs make you think. They make my brain mush.
Ter- I know I've seen the potato thing done on a movie. But it was more of a comical killer movie than a serious one. It helps me that my best friend loves guns and used to work in a call center specializing in weaponry. I get the downlow from her.
I've been shot with a paint ball. The language that came out of my mouth might not been pretty but it sure was colorful. And I guarantee you the dude who shot me with one wasn't pleased with how I retaliated either.
I'm sure there is a way to make paint balls a deadly weapon. We should ask Leslie. Leslie would know. Maybe we can get her to write it in her next hitman book.
Now I have a image in my head of Jules walking around in a leather bustier with an elaborate compass tatooed in the middle of her clevage.
Hal, this would be a great blog. How to turn every day essentials into deadly weapons. The remote control could be awesome. Like a James Bond thing. *contemplating*
Aren't you glad you wandered onto the ship today? Complete chaos- just like I like things.
Well, yeah, Jules, eventually the Boyfriend wanders off course...but how long do breast exams really take? I assure you between my current doctor and the Boyfriend, the latter takes more time. Measure twice, cut once.
I'd rethink the compass tattoo. Remember: The compass may not point north, but a lot of the time, you're not looking for north, are you?
Hahahaaaaaa... where's my camera?! LOL
They'd probably be poison paintballs. Superfast, skin-absorbing poisoned paint...
I'd have to second Janga. You guys (ALL OF YOU!) could pretty much blog about the weather, sooner or later veer off course (maybe it's all that rum) and create a whole lotta fun for the day!
I know you guys work hard on the topics, but in all honesty I come here because of you pirates (not the blog topics - is that bad?). Each one of you has a different, distinct and interesting voice.
And I NEVER just stop at the blog - you just gotta continue on to the comments cause you never know what you'll find. It's like that game of telephone everyone played as a kid. You know... you whisper a sentence into one kid's ear and by the time the 20th kid repeats the sentence it has changed into a completely different sentence.
Sin - I couldn't retaliate. It was a drive by.
Us, veer off course? Don't be silly. We always end up right where we intended to be. LOL! We can't help it if that's either the gutter or the looney bin.
On Bones last week, a woman was killed with a stapler. That fits right into the "everyday items as weapons" blog thread.
LOL. My mama is a lurker and I know that she glances over the blog and skips to the comments. Literally we get so off kilter in the comments that it's almost a sin not to read them. I mean, you suffered through the blog. The comments are the best part, IMHO. LOL
I never could play that game honestly. I'd screw up the sentence for the sheer fun of hearing it at the end.
Irish we're so glad you come to see us. :)
And the comments are the most fun. It's pretty much where we let all the dysfunction hang out, but it's fun.
*still contemplating the poisonous paintball* You could buy regular paintballs and inject them with a fine tip needle.
Ter, I missed that episode of Bones!Gah, I love that show! DB is HAWT!
Also, Sin, um...I'm starting to worry about you...lol:)
LOL! What's that about dysfunction, Sin?
Do those poisonous paintballs mesh well with your dart eyelashes?
Kelly - I missed all but the last 20 mins or so. But it's on tonight at 8. Whoot! And I'll second the DB is HAWT motion.
Sin - why don't you just change it from a paint ball to a paint bullet? Or is that too obvious?
I like the sound of the paint bullet. It's edgier. Edgy is fun...
Oh, so you just HAD to go and put 'faithful reader' in there didn't you? Pile on the guilt, why don't you. *rolls eyes* All right so I've been hiding. I admit it.
Besides the last few weeks or so that I've been AWOL, *blushes* I'm just plain drawn to you all. RWR has the most entertaining and down to earth blog I've come across. The one thing, that I find helpful as an aspiring writer is the way you all explain techniques, for some reason, it gets through my thick skull.
Renee
Renee - when you go into hiding, you really go. But I've noticed on your blog that you've been super-productive. Go you!
Down to earth is probably the best way to describe us. Nothing fancy here. What you see...err...read is likely to make you do a double take, then reach for more rum. LOL!
Happy to have you out of lurking! And we'll try to keep the technique stuff coming. Though you realize we rarely know what we're talking about...
Renee!!! Happy un-hiding babe! Just because you've been in hiding doing things that the rest of us should be doing (ie: Alex, I'll take- Writing and things that have to do with writing for $500) doesn't mean you're not a faithful reader of the blog. Just means you've got better things to do with your time than goof off in the comments. LOL
I am talking technique. I'm talking technique on how to kill a character. I say character because this is probably more exceptable than the obvious. LOL
It's almost the only technique I know. Otherwise, I just make it up as I go.
Kelly and Ter, yes, a paint bullet is edgier, but it's more obvious. If you want to learn how to- hm-do things right, you have to learn how to be stealthy. Like a ninja.
Marn- I love my eyelashes. Lethal little buggers. Too bad I got one in my eye earlier. Now I'm going to be a giraffe with an eyepatch.
I got to get up earlier in the morning and start reading! I've only been visiting the blog for a few weeks, but I love the way the topics move to and fro.
For lethal hilarity, try Leslie Langtry's new series, The Greatest Hits. A family of assassins finding love and romance. Always LOL fun. First and third really good, second wasn't as smooth. But still, you want to read of interesting ways to kill people!? Wow!
I'd love to debate the entire classification of the romance genre. Where do the adventure romance stories fall?! Where would Pirates of the Caribbean fall, for example! Paranormal (there was magic)? Humor? (Gods, yes.) Historical (wildly inacurate)?
I don't blog, though am interested in doing so. Just don't have the slightest idea how to set it up and have too many projects to take the time to learn... Seems to me you're all doing brilliantly!
I love what I read here, regardless of what the crew decides to bandy about with!
Thanks Terr. And Sin, I wish I could say that I've been as productive as could be. There's still too much procrastination. I swear I could have had 5 books finished in the last year, if only...;)
It feels good to be back. Y'all make my brain work and laugh at the same time. And the banter, it's fantabulous.
Renee
Renee, I know what you mean about the 5 books thing. If I could just work consistently*sigh*
Ah, well!
Oh, and it's so cool that you're back. Did you check yesterday's blog? It was excellent!
Oh, I love Leslie Langtry! I've been gospeling her since the first book. I've loved them all...though I think I love the 2nd one best. (I snorted more stuff out my nose reading than the other two, but it was a tough call. The Disneyworld scene was priceless; and Paris screaming like a little girl. The whole talking to his penis bit.)
Where would POTC fall? I'd probably list it as historical, even though I can't figure out the year. The clothing is around 1740 or so; but the Golden Age of Piracy was at least twenty years BEFORE that.
I love love love Leslie! Hellion and I are her offical stalkers. Met her at Chicago's Spring Fling in April. Wonderful assassin and hilarious. She got us into plenty of trouble. Her books crack me up. We've had Leslie blog with us a couple of times. She keeps up well with our dysfunction (see, I used it in a sentence, Marn.) and adds to it usually.
2nd Chance, it's very easy to set up a blog on blogspot. Our old pirate blog was there. Very easy to use.
Really late home tonight.
I think 72 must be near to record breaking for the number of posts! Not surprised though *g*
Please forgive me this once but I cheated and did a quick search for 'Quantum' or 'Q', not that I usually lose myself!
Sin, I don't believe in having favourite pirates, but if I did....*sigh*
I will be practising my 'dangerous smile' in the mirror now! :D
Kelly, I thank you ... we scientists don't often get compliments like that! :oops:
Gotta get some shut eye now.
I've taken a copy so that I can laugh laugh at my leisure. :lol:
Yeah, I bet Missi Bombay could figure out to kill someone with a potato anything! The second book had it's moments, and yes, the penis discussions were loverly...but I had a harder time buying the male voice. I just finished the third last night... Will have to check out her blog... I do like the fixation of snack foods in book three. Made me hungry.
Historically, PotC is wildly innacurate. The costumes are too late, ships were steered by whipstaffs at the time. Port Royal was still above the ground (having been wiped out by an earthquake in the early 1790's). And it was called the wickedness city in the world...didn't appear that way in the films. Though I don't really care, personally. Loved it anyway!
I had another idea for discussion while driving along the coast of my home port, singing along with the Indigo Girls, windows down... (Sure got some odd looks...)
There's a lot of pirate themed music out there... My magical music box is stuffed with it.
And the genre question??? How would we divy up the movies, if they were on the shelf...? Where would Romancing the Stone go...
What movies inspire writing?
Pirates and parrots, anything kinky going on there...?
Stopping now, need more rum...
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