Narrative Enhancer Mugs

Moses and the Screenwriter: 'Accurate-Shmaccurate...if you want this story to sell, it needs some punching up.'

"Meet the embellisher 3-5 pm"

News: Deaths! Deaths! Deaths!

"I remember when the death of the hero meant the end of the sequels. Now it marks the beginning of the prequels."

Characters jumping out of a book.

"Max! Oh, my God! There's like a billion moving ideas in there!"

"More rescue efforts, less screenplay."

Library - Political Science section - 'What to do until the spin doctor comes'

It was my story. A murder mystery. A who-done-it-and-got-away-with-it-until-he-wrote-about-it.

'I'm not being punished! I'm reading because I happen to enjoy reading!'

"We've done a rigorous examination of your business plan using the latest algorithms to model future profits. . . which way up would you like it?"

"What your memoir really needs is an addiction."

The writers group met every Tuesday for support and fellowship.

"This is an excellent story, Doris, so far."

"That was too many fresh original voices for one night."

Man commiting suicide finds the treasure at the bottom of the sea.

"I feel that I have at least one more unpublished novel in me."

'Is this your first book launch?'

"It all happened so fast. 'Notable Book of the Year' to the remainder shelves to HERE in just six months!"

My Aunt's Left Hook Expels Uriah From The Chaise

A book reviewer reads between the margins.

Writer Services: We fix plot holes.

Man writing at laptop says: 'It's a UK road movie ??" to give it more scale, I'm making the characters three inches tall.'

"I'm after the history section."

Ego Increasing School

"...And I like how you switched from the first person narrative to third person—impressive." "Thanks."

"I'm not spinning - I'm contextualizing."

"But you didn't say they had to make sense - you just told us to write a thousand words a day."

"It's a narrative I didn't intend."

'I'm a writer.' - 'What a coincidence, I'm a reader.'

"It's a coming-of-middle-age story."

The Truth

"And Jasper, dear Jasper, with his soulful eyes and great sagging jowl, would be stretched upon the floor, his tail a-thump when he heard his master's footsteps." Penny loved Daphne Du Maurier's 'Rebecca'.

"It was only when I started to write the story of my life that I realised I'd forgotten to have one."