Fiction

[Japher]

Monkeys!!!

[Lorizael]

Originally posted by Japher
Monkeys!!!

Why Japher, I never thought of that before! Excellent suggestion, good sir.

[Japher]

What should this hopeless amateur writer write about?

Write about a guy who goes to this online forum everyday to figure out how to feel about certain things, what to do, and what the next step in their life should be. The guy goes through life this way and becomes very succesful mainly because of this one poster named "Japher". It becomes as though his life is one big chain of luck, as long as he does what Japher says. Then, as he is heading into his golden years he decides to meet Japher, but Japher doesn't want to meet him. However, he has Japher's IP address and tracks him down to a remote building in Eastern Montana where he learns that Japher, is in fact, a room full of monkeys banging on keyboards and that a group of scientists have been posting any coherent (or sometimes coherent) thoughts to the internet forum. Thus, in the end, this characters life of success has been based on the logic and decisions of monkeys.

That would be so awesome...

[Jon Miller]

You forgot about bananas..

JM

[Japher]

bananas can't type

[Jon Miller]

telepathy

JM

[Japher]

very good point

[SlowwHand]

Originally posted by Japher


Write about a guy who goes to this online forum everyday to figure out how to feel about certain things, what to do, and what the next step in their life should be. The guy goes through life this way and becomes very succesful mainly because of this one poster named "Japher". It becomes as though his life is one big chain of luck, as long as he does what Japher says. Then, as he is heading into his golden years he decides to meet Japher, but Japher doesn't want to meet him. However, he has Japher's IP address and tracks him down to a remote building in Eastern Montana where he learns that Japher, is in fact, a room full of monkeys banging on keyboards and that a group of scientists have been posting any coherent (or sometimes coherent) thoughts to the internet forum. Thus, in the end, this characters life of success has been based on the logic and decisions of monkeys.

That would be so awesome...

This isn't a bad idea.

[Japher]

It will win you an award!

[SlowwHand]

You could add another twist to the plot.
He was a monkey hunter, who now realizes he owes the life he lives to the very mammals he had spent his life hunting.

[Victor Galis]

Having been faced with a similar situation years ago, I wrote a story about me writing a story. It was partly thrown together, but when the class read it and talked about it, it came out as some sort of metastory filled with commentary on modern life with isolation themes.

I was mildly amused

[Lorizael]

Uh, thank you Sloww and Japher and Jon Miller. An interesting... concept... to be sure.

I think I've thought of something, though. My cousin, a recent graduate of West Point, was just sent to Iraq. He's in Kuwait right now, waiting to be deployed. It's been on my mind lately and I think I'm going to write a little something vaguely related to that.

[Zkribbler]

I remember back in my college days when one of my fellow students tried that. The prof. panned the work saying that this idea was too obvious and that the final break-up with the narrator's girlfried at the end of the story was engineered just to give the story an ending.

[Winston]

Friction

[Victor Galis]

Originally posted by Zkribbler
I remember back in my college days when one of my fellow students tried that. The prof. panned the work saying that this idea was too obvious and that the final break-up with the narrator's girlfried at the end of the story was engineered just to give the story an ending.

Ah mine was a short story, in it I was at my computer and all the dialogue was through electronic means (incidentally the other characters were posters on Poly ).