Weird Ways for Writers to Die
"What do you do with a BA in English?" sings a mournful puppet in the opening scene of Avenue Q.
Well, kids, if you play your cards right, you can take that BA and become a freelance writer. And one day, just maybe, you will get an assignment like this. What disturbs you most about the project is not the gory subject matter but the fact that you were able to recall, without so much as a Google search, exactly how almost all of these people died. And when the story comes out, you will sit quietly and try not to think about what vitally important truths have been displaced by the knowledge that Tennessee Williams choked to death on a bottle cap.
Posted on Wednesday, Mar 3, 2010
