“Ooh, ooh, I know. I’ll write about an evil twin!”
“Yawn. Boring. Done. Very 19th Century.”
“What? What are you talking about?”
“Ever heard of doppelgangers?”
“I thought that was a D&D monster.”
“Buzzz. Wrong. Try again.”
“Okay, how about a dream sequence? And there’ll be cats! Lots of cats. Only, this time they’ll be good.”
“H.P. Lovecraft called. He wants his story back.”
“Fuck you. Uhm. Okay. How about this. A barbarian, only he’s not all Noble Savage and wants nice things. And, like instead of a loincloth he wears armor.”
“Done and done by Crom! Have you never read any Howard?”
“A master thief who also knows some magic?”
“Leiber.”
“A sickly prince of a decadent civilization?”
“Moorcock.”
“An aged fighter, come back for one more fight?”
“You mean ‘Legend’ by David Gemmel?”
“Fine, fine. What do you think I should write?”
“No idea. But it’s fun to shoot your’s down.”
Dark Perceptions 