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That seems to be how it is for me at times, climb into bed, and suddenly, my mind’s racing.  I’ll get up, write it down (because it just came up with a good idea), climb back into bed, only to come up with another idea….  Or, wake up early, mind’s racing, so I can’t get myself to go back to bed.  I do try carrying a notebook around, just to jot down ideas when they do come.

Every so often my muse and I get along and I can write for a while. Other times, the muse might as well be the sun shining through the blinds while I’m trying to sleep after a sleepless insomniac night. “Go away. We’ll play later!”

If only inspiration didn’t have a habit of hitting me right when I’m dead tired and finally resolving to sleep for a while..

indeed it is. For muses are fickle things
 

indeed it is. For muses are fickle things
 

In the end, that’s a good reason, better than money (for those lucky few).

You know, I’ve always looked to Sheffield’s industrial past and thought there must be a good supernatural horror story or two lurking there. Sheffield’s heart is a dark, dead space filled with crumbling red brick buildings blackened with grime, and smashed factory windows. And it’ll remain like that forever, no matter how much “regeneration” they engage in. It’s our history. All those souls lost to industry. And through the middle of it all, making it possible, the river Don. Without the river, there’d have been no industrialisation of Sheffield. If that river was conscious, and it could speak, it would hate all of us. Without a doubt.
I mean, I won’t write that, but that’s the angle I’ll probably take. I love your idea! It’s the resentment of the natural world, personified in a single instance between a river and a man.
If effluent, toxic chemicals and waste from manufacturing processes can hurt and kill a river, I’m sure there’s an equivalent for a man. The body horror I’m evisaging is kind of taking you literally. I mean, sticks, stones and riverbed mud in odd places would be incredibly painful, perhaps even fatal. And especially if they just kept appearing. How long would this man endure something like that before he went along to the doctor? Would he? How would he hide it? When exactly would he get past the point of entitlement (once he realised what was happening to him) and decide that it was time to appease whatever it was he’d angered? Would it have a chance in hell of working? And that’s just first thoughts. Lots of evil potential! *rubs hands together*

Haha… seems to me there’d be a whole lot of scope for genuine body horror in this one. Similar theme, completely different approach to the other one I wrote. If I ever get done with GoT, and no one else has taken it, I might keep this in mind.

Oh I like sound words like cooed. Of course if every bit of dialogue is tagged with them and every action is responded with them, it’ll get distracting. Personally, I probably overuse them a touch and don’t use the he said/she said nearly enough to make the tags functional yet disappeary, but that’s my jam. 

In my humble opinion, cooed and any other sound word should be used when they have the most impact. When no other word would suffice to paint the scene the way you see it in your head. A baby falls off a table or something, the mother rushes to it and coos to try to comfort it. And well yelps, screams, moans, groans, sighs, squeaks, shrieks, are usually best reserved for pain, puns, and naughtiness, and those are really the only sound words I can think of off the top of my head, because that’s just the kinda person I am. 

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Fresh is best. Even if its 160 pounds of talking beef, bread, lettuce, tomato, and cheese

Life is nature’s way of keeping meat fresh…. (to quote Doctor Who)
 

Nice.
 

Bob Prime goes into the jungle and becomes Amazon Prime.

Sounds like a vore tag to me! I’d like to see someone do that idea. Not the vorey cheeseburger one, but the people turning into their costumes one. Sexy cop/Dracula or something! Or like one of those ‘who would win, swamp thing vs frankenstein’s monster?’ with a sexy twist. 

The power to make vegetarians run away in horror but then on the flip side, you’d mesmerize the meat eaters and that would probably give you mind control powers.
 

In honor of Halloween
For one night you get the powers of the character you are dressed as. Props aren’t props in your hands.
;3

Possibly if Bob Prime and Anti-Bob meet it could usher in a World Without Bob.

Well, confidence matters to me because I think a lot of people already have decent summaries that successfully communicate to the reader what their story is about, but their self-doubt gets in the way. Or ‘successfully communicates’ isn’t good enough, they want their summaries to be awesome, to whet the readers’ appetites. Which is a totally legit desire. So that doubt becomes the problem a lot of the time more than the summary itself is. Or the ambition to get better gives them/us the motivation to learn more about techniques or learn more about their readers. 
 
 

Given the time/effort/reward involved, few are in writing for the money.  And those who do, they’re the lucky few that effectively won the lottery, are now screenwriters or best sellers.

Might be a little late...  Sounds like my usual, but…
Star Trek kind of started it for me.  I started originals and loved the process and creativity in school and used that to get out of the bad situation.  They were mostly vicious shorts, blood she'd and violence galore...  (Has anything really changed?... ...)  Then I started writing in the Star Trek universe for a little, expanded outward from shorts into novels...  Which in turn became originals again...  (A full circle, weird and crazy, but yeah...)  Sci Fi has always been a part of my writing, I've just expanded out…
And I ramble on...

to me it just comes down to how the summary feels, how ever long you make it, confidence i dont think matters in that respect, either you have the right summary or you dont.
did it give you enough of a tease to get people interested? 
did it give enough of a description of the general plot?
did it communicate enough of a struggle for the characters?
will there be pizza at some point?
 

What’s right?  What’s wrong?  It probably depends on the intended audience, to some degree.  If there was a precise science to it, I’d have licked this ages ago, instead, I find it to be rather...fuzzy.  (No, I do not mean a fetish there)

Hahaha. He shall be named Bob 676
Aka Infernal Bob

Huzzah! Behold
Infernal Bob of Twincest – Anti Bob

Huzzah! Behold
Infernal Bob of Twincest – Anti Bob