Instigation

+ Violate an aquarium by constructing a grotesque underwater display. + Disgust a schoolchild by dishing out something surprising in the cafeteria. + Do something very nasty with body hair. *** Like these? Instigation is a WEEKLY department in Hellnotes newsletter. If you publish something instigated by this department, let me know and I'll mention it here! Or if you're bold (and willing to forfeit electronic rights), post your response to a prompt at the new Goreletter weblog by clicking on the word "comments" below.

+ Write the final scene in a book about Armageddon. + In painstakingly close detail, appealing to all five senses, describe a rotting human head. When you reach the end, reveal the context for its appearance -- one which sends the reader right back to the beginning. + What is the filthiest place your avoid in your day-to-day life? A nasty corner of the basement? A restroom in your office building? The dump you drive past on your way to work? Choose the worst. Now imagine that something evil resides there. Write about its emergence. *** Instigation is a WEEKLY…

+ Describe a heart attack in first person viewpoint...one that occurs while the character is driving. + Write as if under duress. + The moon is full, but for some reason a lycanthrope is having enormous difficulties transforming. Dramatize. *** Instigation is a WEEKLY department in Hellnotes newsletter. If you publish something instigated by this department, let me know and I'll mention it here! Or if you're bold (and willing to forfeit electronic rights), post your response to a prompt at the new Goreletter weblog by clicking on the word "comments" below.

+ Choke someone by force feeding them something in a poetically just way. + Discover a tentacled monstrocity in a bathroom or a kitchen. + Perform an amateur alien autopsy. *** Instigation is a WEEKLY department in Hellnotes newsletter: http://www.hellnotes.com If you publish something instigated by this department, let me know at arnzen@gorelets.com and I'll mention it here! Or if you're bold (and willing to forfeit electronic rights), post your response to a prompt by clicking "Comments" below....