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[Atelier]

Block PAD
Suggestion Thread

You're not a writer if you don't get afflicted with that terrible ailment: writer's block. But with Block PAD, there's no need to snap your pen in frustration or tear up that manuscript of yours - there's a wealth of fresh ideas to keep you going.

I'm creating a one room AGS-abused game with a random phrase generator to help with writers' block. A bit like a toilet plunger for the mind. And seeing how everybody on the forums has a certain creative flare, I thought that this would be a good place to gather phrases to add into Block PAD. There are however a few criteria that your contributions need to meet...

• It cannot be too long (max. 10 words)
• It must be kept suitable for every age.
• Quotes are fine.
• Single words are fine.
• Plots are fine.
• Random midnight muses are definitely fine.

Thanks for looking at Block PAD, and thanks for your co-operation in anticipation! Contributions may not be added into the first version, but in a later expanded version I'll put everything in! (Credit will be given to all you good people on the forums, of course!)

You can visit the production thread for Block PAD HERE, if you're interested/care.

[Akatosh]

There have been a few threads like this over the years... you may want to take a look at 'em, there are some neat tips around.

[Atelier]

Thanks, I'll have a look through them now. Actually, I've just realised that the maximum number of words can be much higher than 10, so I'll change that in my original post as well.

[Renal Shutdown]

Eskimo.

[Dataflashsabot]

Cats Know Various Things

[Ghost]

Put some familiar stuff in, to trigger memories/assumptions:

- There's always a bigger fish.

- If it's on teh internets, there's going to be porn about it.

- The cake is a lie.

- Cat's urine glows in the dark.

- It's impossible to lick your elbow.

- Butterflies smell with their knees.

- It's pitch black. You're likely to be eaten by a grue.

- A good beta tester is worth his or her weight in gold.

- There is no cow level.

- IDDQD

- Some people play tennis. I erode the human soul.

- Pop! Goes the weasel.

- There *is* no spoon.

Cats Know Various Things

Starting with their names.

[Huw Dawson]

Coffee is good for the soul, but bad for the brain.

It's one of my favorites. 

- Huw

[Atelier]

Thanks everyone for their contributions so far. I'll definitely be using them! 

[GarageGothic]

This reminds me of the six-word stories that Wired Magazine asked a bunch of well-known authors to write. Amazing how a handful of words can evoke whole plots, even universes.

My favorite is probably Orson Scott Card's: "The baby’s blood type? Human, mostly."

[Atelier]

Wow those are great! I'll definitely use these, too, with credit given to their authors. Thanks for directing me there!

[Dualnames]

The books picks a writter not the other way around.

[mkennedy]

"If I knew then what I know now I'd be a prophet."

[MoodyBlues]

Here's what I have.  (Some of them are would-be band names.)

The crazy cat-lady experience!
Xeriscape.
I saw my own death.
The plot twist?  They're all dead!
I woke up today with a cannon for an arm.
It was a dark and stormy night.
Huckleberry Finn... IN SPACE!
I've got cholera, Ma - again!
Enya is secretly an elf.
In the distant year 2000...

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

Lovecraft actually did something very similar to this once, and I happened to find a website listing his various 'spur of the moment' quotes and one-liners he would scribble down, some of which eventually became stories.

http://www.lapetiteclaudine.com/archives/011196.html

[Ghost]

When it comes to sheer links, TvTropes is also a nice resource. Lookit here. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage

[m0ds]

LOL. Writing apps!  : Have you put in a random jukebox and sound effects button? I can just picture MillsJRoss chuckling to the fart sound. Good luck with the project, when you add beach & on the green with a big brass band themes, I'll definitely download it!   

* Eisenhower met aliens.
* Assimilate now!
* Go for a walk, only turn & return after one major co-incidence.
* Start. Smiddle. Middle. Middle. Mend. END!
* Live forever or die trying.

[Atelier]

Thanks for the contributions everyone, I'm getting a better response than I had hoped for. And thanks Ghost and ProgZmax for the links, I'll check them out. Initially Mods I was going to have music, but then afterwards I thought it would be distracting and irrelevant to the point of Block PAD.

[Akatosh]

* Familiar things can seem new from unfamiliar perspectives.
* If in doubt, declare it art.
* Most humane or mostly human?
* Do meat-men dream of organic cars?
* June 3: Broken Puppet Memorial Day (Japan)
* Copyright of stuff before 1900 has likely expired...
* Tell small truths, get away with big lies.
* Apocalypse ain't what it used to be.

+10 Classic Literature XP for anybody who can recognise the second-to-last mangled reference. 

[mkennedy]

+10 Classic Literature XP for anybody who can recognise the second-to-last mangled reference. 

Was it Mark Twain?

[Paper Carnival]

Machine. Unexpectedly, I’d invented a time
- Alan Moore

hehe, I like this one