November 24th, 2010 / 12:31 pm
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Term 12

Catch 22 caught on. So did blog. Jabberwocky, kids, jabber-fuckin-wocky. Writers make words. Go right ahead:

1.      Term for stealing a simile.

2.      Term for writing drunk.

3.      Term for moment you know you’ve lost the audience at a reading.

4.      Term for author groupie.

5.      Term for moment you know you will not finish reading the book in your hand.

6.      Term for guilt felt for playing video games when you should be writing.

7.      Term for sentence you wish you wrote.

8.      Term for disappointment of meeting the writer in person after glowing his/her words.

9.      Term for hatred of flash fiction.

10.   Term for writer who gets drunk and discusses own books.

11.   Term for person at reading who laughs loudly at things not funny.

12.   Term for the feeling you get when meeting someone in person you only knew online.

15 Comments

  1. Anonymous

      #4 is too easy. Sitting this one out.

  2. mimi

      2. crunkative wridunking
      7. penis envy
      11. my new best friend

  3. Ted

      2. glumping

  4. jereme_dean

      #4 is too easy. Sitting this one out.

  5. Elisa Gabbert

      “Term for person at reading who laughs loudly at things not funny.” <- I do that. But I think they're funny, duh.

  6. Merzmensch

      Here the ridiculousity by myself. Dislike it if you like.

      1. Giocondaphilia

      2. Inspiritus

      3. Silen-ce.

      4. Literary “critics”

      5. “Short before beginning of illiteraci”-Experiecnce

      6. Another Final Fantasy.

      7. First line of Nobel Prize laudatio.

      8. Mirrorism

      9. Anti-Exhibitionalysis

      10. Lonely person. Has he drank his alcohol alone? Aww…

      11. Punisher

      12. Double-click-urge.

  7. mimi

      5. flushpoint

  8. alan

      1. like-biting
      2. drunk styling
      3. when you hear yourself reading to yourself in public
      4. MFA student
      5. reaching the bailing point
      7. plagiarism-bait
      8. post-signing tristesse
      9. word-count chauvinism
      11. Myles-baiter

  9. mimi

      12. mouse trap

  10. John Minichillo

      3. Eating whale: I was doing fine until I ate whale.

  11. Anonymous

      1. likeloot
      2. wrotegut
      3. spielunk
      4. taolinear/franzoed/dfwallaceby
      5. readeadend
      6. what happens in new vegas, stays in new vegas
      7. Wortdiebstahl
      8. Mooreose
      9. Iso3200lation
      10. Snailmailer
      11. lollercopter
      12. LJoy/takeAIM

  12. Canvas238

      10. butt-binder. Quality over volume for me!

  13. jmbg

      1. likeloot
      2. wrotegut
      3. spielunk
      4. taolinear/franzoed/dfwallaceby
      5. readeadend
      6. what happens in new vegas, stays in new vegas
      7. Wortdiebstahl
      8. Mooreose
      9. Iso3200lation
      10. Snailmailer
      11. lollercopter
      12. LJoy/takeAIM

  14. Toab

      1. lisking
      2. chunching
      3. gaipse
      4. pistrels
      5. the praw
      6. loamity
      7. goldulum
      8. tuffed
      9. chissity
      10. loatler
      11. clunt
      12. enaired

  15. Jayna W...

      1. Simjobbing.
      2. Driting.
      3. Faaock. The Moment of.
      4. Penfucker. Alternate: Immune to Bad Teeth. Susceptible to Marketing.
      5. Page 70 of Franzen’s Freedom. Ex: Oh yeah, I finally hit the “Franzen page 70” in the newest offering of (insert other author’s name here).
      6. Gameslavesnag.
      7. Epiphanot.
      8. Shaken, not stirred.
      9. Lengthslut.
      10. (insert name of any author here and put in quotes)
      11. That Guy. “Oh. That Guy.” “Yeah. There’s always a That Guy.”
      12. Reality Show.