h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

..that's ALL my ideas for November blown literally out of the literally body parts ridden water....

great article Dmitri

The 'worst' case of this I ever read was by an author who deliberately trolled his readers. I really like his books but this one was mean: the book was several hundred pages long and told everything in great detail: from the protagonist's breakfast to the almost endlessly long puppeteer theatre show he watched. When the story finally started the book was over and ended in a huge cliffhanger. It took me a while to understand what had actually happened. Back when I read it I was annoyed, now I actually find it funny.

Say goodnight, Gracie.

I appreciated the youtube segment in which George Burns sings one of his unimaginably silly songs.

Yes, I am probably quite guilty of dragging in obscure song lyrics. Will I be George Burns in some future life? Wait and see.

Great article indeed!

"It gets us so mixed up, we don't know whether the black cat shot the victim, or whether it was the detective."

Yes!

"'Always leave them wanting more' is a good piece of advice."

Yes indeed

If you can't fit all your ideas into one story without falling foul of this, it means that you have ideas that you can use to write another story

" you have ideas that you can use to write another story"[Sasha]

I keep writing and writing, and never manage to use up all those extra ideas.