The "Avoid Stephen King At All Costs" Challenge

What's this thread about?

Anything.

Talk about anything writing related. Anything at all.

But you CANNOT reference Stephen King, or his books, or anything that would require mentioning his name or one of his book titles, or any signingns or readings he had done, at all. Period.

In any given thread at this here Water Cooler, if it goes on long enough, somebody will mention this great man. I'd like to see how long we can avoid it.

Dear moderator, if someone does so, would you close the post?

Fellow writers, are we ready?

Then...GO!

I thought about that one, and much like races don't start until you say "GO!" I reasoned that this challenge wouldn't start until I said go.

(I'm saying go again lest this post be a loophole).

Okay, GO!

Check the 299 section of your local public library. You might find books on Japanese mythology there.

Okay people. We're skirting dangerously close to the termination of this challenge and we're what, only sixteen posts in? Let's focus people--FOCUS! We can have one conversation about writing without invoking The Name.

So...has anybody read Eats, Shoots & Leaves? Fun read, plus I find myself being more artistic with my punctuation. Truss really elevates those marks from being tools to just as much of the writing process as similies, metaphors, and--dare I say--character development.

The shining qualities of these posts...