Sorry the blog’s been quiet recently. Been battling Norwalk, home renovations, and major deadlines at work all at the same time. Still desperately trying to catch up on the slush at EDF, so apologies there also.
I noticed that the last post got nine comments from people who all immediately vowed to flood me with Spouse-Killing stories. May you all be forced to read the collective works of Stephenie Meyer! 
Anyway, next in the list of hideously overdone plot lines: “A social gathering from Rejected Loser’s POV.” This kind of story is fun to write. So fun, in fact, that every single writer on Earth has attempted it. Fourteen times. And submitted all of them to EDF.
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Good idea. I never thought of that. I wonder if pitiful loser could be killing his spouse at a social gathering? I smell a Nebula!
Meh, I’ll take the gathering over the rape fic. Makes me want to wash my eyes with lye sometimes.
Rape fic? I don’t think we’ve had too much of that, thankfully. Although we did have one very explicit story about sex with a zebra. No joke. And it was by a pretty good author we’ve published before.
A loser gathering from a rejected socialite’s point of view?
It’s been done. Really.
A gathering of zebras having sex with and then rejecting the author, from the author’s point of view?
wow. that has legs.
An unpopular zebra that wants to kill his wife at a party? Or maybe a Spouse that wants to use a zebra to kill everyone at a party? Perhaps a rewrite of MacBeth with zebras in the roles? “Out, damn stripe! Out I say!”
lol. “Out damn stripe!” Classic! I dare you to use that line in a story!