Uber Author Stops Croaking

So when uber-author is desperate, uber-author goes to Uber Subservient Chicken for help.

Type the words, then,

Watch him PRAY for me
Watch him PLEAD
Then watch him DIE

It helped my mood. A little. ;-)

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When I become stuck writing-wise, after numerous head-banging sessions on the keyboard, I sometimes play the game of "Hit me with Aesop." I don't exactly remember why I gave this exercise such a silly name but I have found that reading Aesop's tales sometimes clear issues in my head about what I'm writing. This is part of my "sub-conscious writing" program, bwah!

Back then, what I usually did was open my favorite Aesop's Tales books and then just read one fable. Nowdays, I can just google. Since I'm stuck on the stupid frog picture, I decided to google FROG fable. I had no idea whether Aesop ever told a fable about a frog...and yeah, he did! Here is what I found:

"The frogs had petitioned Zeus to send them down a king. Zeus tossed a log into their pond to serve them as their ruler. At first the frogs feared the log -- it looked so big and rolled about.

Then they began despising it because it lay so still. Indeed, they grew irreverent and squatted down on it. So they decided to ask Zeus for an active king. This time Zeus threw them an eel. The frogs found the eel active enough -- and also a goodnatured, easygoing fellow -- but of no use as a ruler.

So a third time they petitioned Zeus: "We want a real king, a king who will really rule us." Zeus had become impatient with their croaking and complaints. So he dispatched a stork. The stork was neither inactive nor good-natured. Every day he swallowed up another frog or two. Before long no frogs remained to croak."

Yikes.

Discuss among yourselves ;-). Methinks uber-author just hit a bullseye. Ouch. Now I remember why I called this exercise "Hit Me With Aesop." Ow, ow, ow.

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