Comments on: The Poisoned Nipple Theory

By: Daria

Daria — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 21:03:05 +0000

painting nipples is an old erotic method, by the way… it is supposed to imitate physical excitement, which causes blood to go into the nipples, which causes reddening. LOL, just an educational quirk

By: The Perfessor

The Perfessor — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 19:57:56 +0000

To comment only on the “rule of six” or 22 or whatever, I remember that back when there was no TV and Radio was the media drug of the day, The Lone Ranger ruled the day. Only The Ranger had already been on radio for about 100 years of so, and the writers were running out of stories.

Undaunted, what they did was that each of the dozen or so writers for the show wrote down a slip of paper 10 plots, then on 10 different slips of papers they wrote down 10 villains, and then 10 locations, and 10 separate supporting characters, etc. all the way through each and every element necessary to a full story, then they placed them in separate containers, and randomly pulled one from each bin until they had a full set.

Next they wrote a story based on the random elements they pulled, it was in this way that they were able to force themselves to develop story ideas that they would have otherwise never considered. Needless to say The Lone Ranger radio show was able to run for several more years.

By: Nalini Singh

Nalini Singh — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 05:52:37 +0000

Brilliant post, Diana.

(Btw, I think in that CSI episode, the pro ended up crashing her car because the drug had seeped into her system and that’s how they caught her.)

By: Briana

Briana — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 01:43:26 +0000

Now I’m disapointed! I thought you were going to be right. I thought the same thing as you. I did not progress it into TPNT though. That is perfect. Great article.

By: Alison

Alison — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 00:28:15 +0000

Oh, funny. I came away from this post thinking the nipples HAD been poisoned, LOL! I’ve never seen the movie.

By: Sasha

Sasha — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 00:14:19 +0000

I like that way of looking at things! The more unusual the better. Sometimes.

By: Diana Peterfreund

Diana Peterfreund — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 23:27:24 +0000

I’m glad you’re enjoying it, AWH!

Uh-oh, Linda.. should I expect a sudden rash of PN in my mystery reads?

Jordan, I’m sorry for the disturbing visual. Coukldn’t be helped.

By: Jordan Summers

Jordan Summers — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 23:08:07 +0000

Terrific entry. Really enjoyed it…although I may have to poke out my mind’s eye to get the ‘visual’ to go away.:lol:

By: Linda

Linda — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 22:46:31 +0000

Oh, man—don’t say something like that to a mystery writer. It makes me want to use it, somewhere, in some book. And the last thing I need right now is yet ANOTHER idea.

By: Walt

Walt — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 22:43:48 +0000

See? That’s what I get for tripping over the cliché and right into the facts of the case…