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July 19, 2007

Thursday

Remember the Beatles? John, Paul, George & Ringo? The Fab Four?

In that case, you better Google them because today's theme requires that you use at least three of their song titles within your story.

Oh, and you can't reference the Beatles. That'd be way too easy.

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But referencing the Beatles, surely, is not the be all and end all of ease. Good writers reference, hack writers knick it off the back of a lorry at midnight - is that not the phrase.

Reference someone good and obscure, like Big Country or Ellia Wainscott. At least then, you shall look deep, brooding and mysterious. Readers love that kind of stuff.

Posted by: Michael S. Collins at July 19, 2007 9:08 AM · Permalink

Penny Lane beamed. “We had no hope of having children ‘till there was you, Dr. Roberts. We’re so grateful to dear Prudence for referring us to your fertility clinic last year. Do you want to know a secret? Money was tight and after the miscarriage I’d said ‘not a second time’, but you really got a hold of me and, My Sweet Lord, here we are expecting! No more misery. We’re welcoming each little child.”

“It won’t be long now,” said Dr. Roberts, “until you deliver quadruplet girls. Do you have names selected?”

“Julia, Anna, Michelle and Martha,” she replied.

Posted by: Barb at July 19, 2007 9:21 AM · Permalink