A local man has written a Spoof story about the many Spoof stories recently appearing in The Spoof that are being written with headlines including the word Man. "I was inspired by all these stories with titles like Local Man Buys New Toaster, Man...
Here's what you gotta do: 1. Forget about looking at the future or the present. People are interested in THE PAST these days. Look backward not forward and you'll do fine. 2. Remember: Same old, same old. Forget about innovation or being unique. Think reboot and you're sure to succeed. And stay away from Twitter and Facebook. You may say something stupid that will get you fired before yo...
Adverbs everywhere have vocally and publicly come out against best-selling author Stephen King, blaming him for their summary dismissal by many modern-day writers. “Thanks to him, we’re being edited out of the game,” lamented adverb Beverly Passio...
Minnesota. News reporters rushed to the home of Jonathan Smith last Tuesday, after he allegedly told trusted friend and co-worker, Susan Clemens, that he felt he was past his prime as a writer and that it was time to move on with his life. Jonath...
#1) Make sure that you have a basic understanding of grammar Solid and effective writing does not necessarily require a highly advanced and extremely technical understanding of grammar. Just make sure that you know how to properly use the basics such as: A) Epiphoras; B) Logosglyphs; C) Neologisms; D) Simple, Intermediate, and Advanced Palindromes; E) Vocative Cases; F) Onomatop...
Being the chair of the local Mermaid Public Relations Committee isn't all it's cracked up to be. Like today, for example, I'd like to be out swimming around in the ocean with the other mermaids. Instead I'm tasked with reading the entries of my fellow mermaids to a short story contest by a local magazine and choosing the ones that will proceed to the next round of the competition. The magazine edi...
Kendra Burke, a full-time nurse in Charleston, South Carolina, recently decided to become an aspiring author - which, she explained, has more to do with personal potential and possibility than with external accomplishment or even action. "I'm not...
34 year old Jamie Gahron spent 3 hours last Thursday night working on an article for an online publisher, knowing just a couple sentences in, that the piece was a wash. But instead of moving on to a different subject Jamie made himself another dr...
In a groundbreaking writer's conference overnight session, German writers have come very close to creating the first ever "funny" writing composition in their own language. President Munchen von Hausen, speaking for the group, said, " Although ve...
Detectives in Louisville, Ky had to bring in a special deciphering expert to decode the notes found at the scene of a mysterious set of books. The books appeared to be linked to a previously unsolved crime. The expert, a diminutive blue-haired...
Inspired by the gazillions of dollars people are making in the romance novel genre, I decided to write one with a friend, Barry Golson. Granted, the genre is dominated by women, but so what? How hard could it be? Besides, Barry and I weren't exactly neophytes. Some years ago, we'd cut our teeth on a short romance novella called Love's Reckless Rash, written under the pen name Rosemary Cartwheel...
The widely ignored and disregarded writing partnership of "Collins and Dutton" are to re-unite based on rumours circulating the social elite. The pair famously split following a well publicised spell of alcohol fuelled arguments and violence, when...
Here, in the latest in his series "10 Things to Do," Nigel St. Faversham explores the options available to those of us struggling with a slow computer. Whether due simply to a full memory, or corrupted to oblivion with countless tics and viruses from the internet, a quick run-through our Top Ten will soon restore your love affair with the laptop, or at the very least keep that stroke at bay for ju...
Can't write? Can't muster up that urge of literary brilliance that adorns the page like a symphony of unwritten prose just waiting for ink to touch parchment. Just write and go. The new Artificial Intelligent Intellectual Pen 3000 now with new improved Creative AI (tm). For all those moments when your feeble human brain says, "Fuck you higher functions! I ain't playing ball. I want to destroy...
Last August, I reviewed the iSpoof app and as a result it came to be the most popular app at The Spoof. This year, the makers of the iSpoof have developed the iIain. G.T. Fox of All The Write Apps developed the iIain due to the increased populari...
Government and health officials are being urged to take action over safety issues relating to propelling pencils. The call comes after a weekend when a local man "narrowly escaped death" while trying to replace the lead in his Yard-O-Led pencil.
Due to a deteriorating command of the English language it has been determined that punctuation is no longer required in any material to be put on line It just confuses things said Don Caster head of English at Oxford University Nobody needs punctu...
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