Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
· Alien Attack (Signs, The Day the World Ended, Invasion of the Body Snatchers) · Slasher (or Ten Little Indians, which was the play and film that started off that genre) · Changeling Child (Rosemary’s Baby, The Exorcist, The Orphan, Harry Potter) · Man Against Nature (Jaws, Twister) · Fish Out of Water (The Proposal, New in Town) · Ensemble Myster
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I have to write to discover what I am doing. —Flannery O’Connor
Anna Quindlen • Write for Your Life
Or, as E. L. Doctorow once wrote, far more succinctly “I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction; there is only narrative.”
Nora Ephron • I Feel Bad About My Neck
“The show doesn’t go on because it’s
Tina Fey • Bossypants
mean now? Wait a minute, maybe we should—”