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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 25

General Stuff Fridays:
I’ve speculated what the police/army would do if the world became a lot more peaceful. And I just realized it. They would form militias to cover the “*police” terms we come up with. Grammar police, thought police, chocolate police, if something needs to be regulated and protected, these people will protect it. We […]

16May2008 | Mur Lafferty | 1 comment | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 24

Scenes Thursdays:
Jared leapt atop the pallet of the warehouse, bullets ricocheting off the concrete floor. He swore to himself and hugged his satchel closer to him. He crouched down and took a moment to breathe, hidden by a crate from Turkey. He grabbed a gun from inside his satchel, taking a moment to caress the […]

15May2008 | Mur Lafferty | 0 comments | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 23

Macguffin Wednesdays:
A book is found in an old bookstore, and it’s encrypted in a sophisticated cypher that has three different messages, depending on which key you use. Three organizations in the city have the three different keys. They’re very different organizations, (say, the Masons, the Nurse’s Union, and the Boy Scouts) groups that never found […]

14May2008 | Mur Lafferty | 2 comments | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 22

Settings Tuesdays:
The reason why honey is so dangerous to infants is fear of botulism, lots of little spores and stuff that digestive tracts can’t handle. What I like is the idea of a seriously complex political system that controls the botulism spores. And the good systems can keep the botulism down, but the corrupt systems, […]

13May2008 | Mur Lafferty | 1 comment | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 21

Character sketches Mondays
Prophesy is a funny thing. So when Prince Lawrence was visited by the local seer on his thirteenth birthday, he was dismayed to find out he is not the Chosen One, or a Hero, or the Savior. He was destined to be a good and fair king during the time of peace his […]

12May2008 | Mur Lafferty | 1 comment | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 20

Anything goes Sundays
So on the ride home I was thinking about the plotlines, mainly thinking about the whole hide-the-important-thing-inside-a-living-person plotline. And that’s been done. it’s tired.
But what if we twist it? What if we have a king who needs to hide something. Doesn’t matter what. it’s a Macguffin. We’ll worry about that later. But […]

11May2008 | Mur Lafferty | 4 comments | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 19

First Sentence Saturdays:
Old Kelly had been in prison for so long that she didn’t even remember why she was there, but when the King summoned her from her dark cell, he reminded her.
I thought about Old Kelly a lot on the drive up to Baltimore, wondering what her crime had been, wondering how old she […]

10May2008 | Mur Lafferty | 2 comments | Continued
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Changes to The News From Poughkeepsie

Hey all. Thanks for all the great feedback on The News From Poughkeepsie project so far. It’s been challenging and sometimes frustrating, but always fun.
And no, I’m not making drastic changes implying i can’t keep up with the daily posting. I just want some structure in my life. So I’ll be doing a couple of […]

10May2008 | Mur Lafferty | 3 comments | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 18

I wonder why technology has evolved the way it has - and then it struck me. What if we advanced just as we have today, but we still kept a great deal of the everyday habits of yesterday? What really hit me was the Andy Griffith Show, where in Mayberry each phone in the town […]

9May2008 | Mur Lafferty | 1 comment | Continued
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The News From Poughkeepsie - Day 17

One thing that I’ve been wondering is how to deal with cliche’ aspects. Granted, I don’t read a lot of high fantasy anymore, but is it possible to write a unicorn story, or a magical sword story, or an orphan-with-a-destiny story without hitting every cliche’ in the book?
Yeah, it’s been done. I think there was […]

8May2008 | Mur Lafferty | 4 comments | Continued
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