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Would You Rather Wednesday Jan. 27, 2016



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Wed Jan 27, 2016 5:37 pm
Nate says...



Would you rather Wednesday took a week-long break, but it's back!

Last time, you were asked to choose between:

1) Be forced to do all your writing on a haunted mechanical keyboard where if you don't write 1,000 words every day, everything you've ever written is destroyed (incl. even the grocery store list)?
2) Be forced to do all your writing with a haunted pencil where the tip breaks every 50 words, but there's otherwise no consequences?

Number 2 was the favorite, but there were a few who chose number 1!

Now it's time for round 3!

Would you rather...

1) Dictate everything you write to a trained monkey, whom you must clean up after.

or...

2) Be cursed with a spell that magically makes everything you write rhyme.
  





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Wed Jan 27, 2016 5:46 pm
Steggy says...



I rather do the monkey, because I cannot rhyme words on the fly.
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Wed Jan 27, 2016 7:16 pm
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Oops, made a mistake in how I worded the second option! Reworded it -- the idea is that you'll just magically be able the rhyme everything you write.
  





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Wed Jan 27, 2016 7:29 pm
Steggy says...



Oh!

Still going with the first option.
You are like a blacksmith's hammer, you always forge people's happiness until the coal heating up the forge turns to ash. Then you just refuel it and start over. -Persistence (2015)

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Wed Jan 27, 2016 8:11 pm
Pretzelstick says...



2. just because if you're trying to be a poet, this comes in handy. xD
Plus you can always reword thing and edit if need be.
Last edited by Pretzelstick on Wed Jan 27, 2016 8:35 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Wed Jan 27, 2016 8:15 pm
Iamawriter says...



Option #2 :D
"Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness."

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Wed Jan 27, 2016 8:18 pm
TheSilverFox says...



Pssssht, option number 1 in a landslide. If I have a trained monkey that can write what I want it to, surely I can potty train it - if it isn't already. XD

Besides, I personally like to write poems that don't rhyme, so option number 2 would be a nuisance. :P
S'io credesse che mia risposta fosse
a persona che mai tornasse al mondo,
questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse.
Ma per ciò che giammai di questo fondo
non tornò vivo alcun, s'i' odo il vero,
senza tema d'infamia ti rispondo.

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Wed Jan 27, 2016 8:40 pm
Mea says...



Yeah, option number one for me. Imagine trying to write prose with option 2.
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Wed Jan 27, 2016 10:29 pm
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Lavvie says...



#2 because publishers might be keen on the unique qualities of rhyming prose!


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Thu Jan 28, 2016 3:14 pm
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Lava says...



Option 1; think of the research that can be done!
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Pretending in words was too tentative, too vulnerable, too embarrassing to let anyone know.
- Ian McEwan in Atonement

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Thu Jan 28, 2016 4:35 pm
SkyeWalker says...



eeh, I'd do 1. Remember, monkeys are cool!
My pronouns are they/them.

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Thu Jan 28, 2016 4:38 pm
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niteowl says...



Rhyme? All the time? Sounds divine!

I'd go with option two,
because then I'd write more songs
and I would feel less blue
before very long. :P
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Fri Jan 29, 2016 2:49 am
Rook says...



Um! Both! These both sound great for a would you rather question. I think I'd have to pick one though. Typing is so much work sometimes. I like dictating stuff. And a monkey that can type? Cool! I don't mind cleaning up after it. You have to do that to babies for years and they don't even like, benefit you. And imagine the research, yes! This monkey obviously understands language and such well enough to write for me, so it can understand well enough to write for itself and communicate with scientists who want to know the thoughts of animals. Much easier than sign language.
Instead, he said, Brother! I know your hunger.
To this, the Wolf answered, Lo!

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Fri Jan 29, 2016 4:24 pm
Amnesia says...



I pick one, prose would be hard to write if it sounds like a poem.
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