tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26791026.post115297122753468886..comments2024-03-18T13:32:44.865-04:00Comments on Evil Editor: Q & A 72 Guess the Plot PlagiarismEvil Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03879826770199639420noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26791026.post-1153051081851008712006-07-16T07:58:00.000-04:002006-07-16T07:58:00.000-04:0015 of my GTPs have made the cut so far, and if any...15 of my GTPs have made the cut so far, and if anyone makes a real novel out of them, they are welcome to the entire share of proceeds. Plots are the easy part. That's why, I agree with EE, they are not protected.<BR/><BR/>For those who have had extraordinary strife getting a GTP on the blog: try taking a TV Guide and typing a few program descriptions [what screen people call the 'log lines'] onto your text-editing screen of choice. For a title like "Portal To Doom," which could be about anything, cut and paste a phrase from one show, like "Stargate SG-1," which involves a portal, into the logline of a completely antithetical-genre show, like "Ponderosa," and combine them in a tabloid show's lead story -- <BR/><BR/>Cattle wander off the back-forty, leading Hoss and Little Joe through a time-space portal to Prairie-ovia, where galaxy-roving grass plants conduct a galactic revenge campaign against all four-stomached mass-murderers, returning them to earth as mutilated examples to all who would follow their genocidal grazing-behavior example.<BR/><BR/>At this point, what is funny is easily separable from what is just dunnage. Tighten down to 25 words through ruthless hacking, slicing and word concision, and voila.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26791026.post-1153024022303791382006-07-16T00:27:00.000-04:002006-07-16T00:27:00.000-04:00Great quotes. Love them all. EE's and those in th...Great quotes. Love them all. EE's and those in the comments.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26791026.post-1152987703489240902006-07-15T14:21:00.000-04:002006-07-15T14:21:00.000-04:00From "Negotiating with the Dead," Anon.Excellent.From "Negotiating with the Dead," Anon.<BR/>Excellent.Bernitahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05264585685253812090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26791026.post-1152987041875993462006-07-15T14:10:00.000-04:002006-07-15T14:10:00.000-04:00"one of the most widely-read blogs in the world!" ..."one of the most widely-read blogs in the world!" <BR/><BR/>Well, there is also Miss Snarks. [Oh, and MS claims that George Clooney is real.]<BR/><BR/>Certainly, EE's blog would be required reading for anyone if they were listening to *me*, but I will admit the comment tails on Scott Adams are much longer. Perhaps we minions should keep EE to those of us that can really appreciate him, so I have a hope of reading the comment tails in this lifetime -- some of the minions are almost as funny as EE. <BR/><BR/>Bemita, I love the quote you posted.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26791026.post-1152984410020997172006-07-15T13:26:00.000-04:002006-07-15T13:26:00.000-04:00If I write a novel based on one of my Guess the Pl...If I write a novel based on one of my Guess the Plot suggestions, and someone else does also, I am certain that completely different novels will result. I am not worried about this. A good book takes more than a good idea; execution is (nearly) everything.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26791026.post-1152975173995762572006-07-15T10:52:00.000-04:002006-07-15T10:52:00.000-04:00"...and any such notions that have wandered into t..."...and any such notions that have wandered into this book have got there by the usual writerly methods, which resemble the ways of the jackdaw: we steal the shiny bits, and build them into the structures of our own disorderly nests." <BR/>- Margaret Atwood.Bernitahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05264585685253812090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26791026.post-1152974269171349792006-07-15T10:37:00.000-04:002006-07-15T10:37:00.000-04:00Oh, for cying out loud - if someone can write a bo...Oh, for cying out loud - if someone can write a book from one of my two-sentence pieces if lunacy I say Go Forth And Do It! And I will be delighted.<BR/><BR/>If *I* wanted to write the book, I would keep the idea to myself, and not publish it on one of the most widely-read blogs in the world! DUH!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26791026.post-1152972858787516572006-07-15T10:14:00.000-04:002006-07-15T10:14:00.000-04:00"Bad artists copy. Great artists steal" -- Pablo ..."Bad artists copy. Great artists steal" -- Pablo Picasso<BR/><BR/>Someplace I read that what he meant by this is that great artists take ideas from others and change them to make them their own, where lesser artists just take & drop them in wholesale.<BR/><BR/>A two sentence discription of a plot idea obviously leaves a lot to be filled in. If one starts with a "Guess the plot" idea & writes a book from it, almost all contained in the book is from the author of the book, even if he/she didn't change the seed idea along the way.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com