Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for March 20, 2011
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Transcript:
Alice: Is this a game? Petey: No. I've put down a random trail of pages from my graphic novel "Toad Zombies." It's an exercise to inspire new directions in plot development. This is how Melville wrote "Moby Dick." Here the trail splits, suggesting a possible plot twist. But we keep going this way, following the random associations - HEY! A purple elephant just entered the plot! And green kittens! Is this Melville came up with a white whale? Dill: These're coloring-book pages. Alice: How'd those get there? Petey: Yikes! A pack of pink puppies! They're tearing the Toad Zombies to shreds!
Ghost writer Alice.