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   GrinsToYa said, 3 months ago

   Knowing where you’re going… interesting concept.

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   The_JAM said, 3 months ago

   Odd, that’s what I always do: start from the ending and work to the beginning.

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   IncredibleWerekitty said, 3 months ago

   Oops?

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   Superfrog said, 3 months ago

   Well that’s one way to spoil the fun, ‘fanged companion’.

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   somebodyshort said, 3 months ago

   Wiley, how much is apple paying for the product placement? Hope it’s lots.

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   pouncingtiger said, 3 months ago

   Wolf Girl should learn a lesson from Spaceman Spiff (from Calvin and Hobbs). Make it an ongoing saga.

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   Carmy said, 3 months ago

   Oh, the irony!

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   durtclaw said, 3 months ago

   Try the olfactory distress signal, 150 decibels should do.

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   BinaryWiener said, 3 months ago

   durtclaw you want Wolf-Girl to raise a stink? Perhaps you meant “ultra high frequency” distress signal.

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    BC13 said, 3 months ago

    Start with a story outline, then flesh out the details.

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    Lurah said, 3 months ago

    That would ruin the fun of creation!

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    3hourtour said, 3 months ago

    …this would be a great time to start the ‘Wolf for Clunkers’ program….

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    moonrise293 said, 3 months ago

    Uh Oh! Looks like it’s time for the Captain Eddie BELCH again.

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    cabrobst said, 3 months ago

    Wolf-Girl and her trusty companion Cave Dog leap off the log even as the Cave Bear and Ravenous Raptorsaur charge each other, float past the Ugly Cave Marauders (boys) who shake their fists in frustration, then she swims downstream chased by giant crocodiles and races through the venomous snake and man-eating-plant filled jungle to warn the village just in time.

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    Bdaysuit said, 3 months ago

    Only to find everyone in the village has mysteriously disappeared.

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    Wiley said, 3 months ago

    “Wiley, how much is apple paying for the product placement? Hope it’s lots.”

    Nothing, dammit! I keep trying and they won’t bite. I’m hoping one day Steve Jobs will call to thank me and offer me a new system. Mine is a few years out of date!

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    ninmas said, 3 months ago

    kate?

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    Wildmustang1262 said, 3 months ago

    Kate has a wonderful imagination! Danae’s imagination….ummm is kind of terrible but that is the way she has.

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    CogentModality said, 3 months ago

    BinaryWiener said

    durtclaw you want Wolf-Girl to raise a stink? Perhaps you meant “ultra high frequency” distress signal.

    Perhaps a reference to today’s B.C.

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    hannabell said, 3 months ago

    He must be talking about the health care issue

21. 

    Dracip said, 3 months ago

    Lurah, I agree. Sometimes when I write a story I’m surprised at where it ends up. Sometimes a Muse takes control and writes it the way it wants too, with or without your help!.

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    Nairebis said, 3 months ago

    Stephen King never plans his stories, he writes ‘em straight out of imagination. It seems to have worked out well for him.

    J.K. Rowling, on the other hand, meticulously planned everything.

    Different people work different ways…

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    cleokaya said, 3 months ago

    I’ve been working on a novel for years and still haven’t come up with an ending.

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    benbrilling said, 3 months ago

    Wiley: While you are waiting for Steve’s eye, you can clip a book light to the top of the notebook for that modern lighted keyboard effect.

25. 

    grazer said, 3 months ago

    My backspace key is worn out trying to change the future.

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    Burgundy2 said, 3 months ago

    I’ve taken a few writing courses. In one course, the emphasis was on the characters. You create characters and sort of follow them around and see what they do.

    The other course started with a plot outline, then you fill in the details.

    Both ways were fun.

27. 

    OldHipster said, 3 months ago

    Push the delete button, dummy.

28. 

    Planet Crunch said, 3 months ago

    JUMP FOR YOUR LIVES QUICK!!!!!

29. 

    Kyler said, 3 months ago

    Hey, who actually plans out their endings? I always just write like crazy and then look back to see what I actually did. Of course, that’s also why I have stacks of unfinished stories…

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    Lewreader said, 3 months ago

    With wolf-girls ability to control time and gravity this should be easy

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    Ladywolf17 said, 3 months ago

    Wouldn’t you know it! i get up this morning turn on my computer and some of my friends tell me to check out Non Sequitur, because it is so totally me they said.

32. 

    kirbey said, 3 months ago

    LOL crazy !

    wahahahahahahahahahh.

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    Furienna said, 3 months ago

    Is that Danae’s sister?

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    NoBrandName said, 3 months ago

    I’ve heard that back in the days of the weekly cliffhanger serials they would alternate writers from week to week. Each week the writer would try to create a totally impossible situation, then leave it to the next writer to figure out how the characters would get out of it.

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    yyyguy said, 3 months ago

    hey cleo: i’ve been working on an ending for years, and still haven’t come up with a novel!

    @Wiley: I’m liking these “repeats” (which aren’t to me). i thought this strip was mainly Danae and Co., but now see that it’s actually so much more. Thanks for being so creative.

36. 

    Doctor Toon said, 3 months ago

    I have the characters, the concept, most of the plot and
    Not one word written down
    I can recite the opening paragraphs from memory.

37. 

    Richard said, 3 months ago

    Jump! and land on tha gang members.

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    4deerinmyyard said, 3 months ago

    “Wolf-Girl and her trusty companion Cave Dog leap off the log even as the Cave Bear and Ravenous Raptorsaur charge each other, float past the Ugly Cave Marauders (boys) who shake their fists in frustration, then she swims downstream chased by giant crocodiles and races through the venomous snake and man-eating-plant filled jungle to warn the village just in time.” (Cabrobst)

    “Only to find everyone in the village has mysteriously disappeared.” (Birthday Suit)

    However, there are giant footprints leading into, and out of, the village. They are too large for cave bear but too small for raptorsaur. There are dark streaks in the dirt which Wolf-Girl’s wolf assures her are indeed blood.

    There was only one thing to do….

    NEXT!

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    serenasakitty said, 3 months ago

    Aww, come on. Tell me. I don’t want to wait to find out the ending.

40. 

    Ushindi said, 3 months ago

    Hey, cleo, I’ve been writing the story of my life for years, now, and I STILL don’t know how it ends…….

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    Carolyn Pile said, 3 months ago

    How did you know this is just what I’ve done with my story http://www.squidoo.com/calamarikid. I have written three episodes and I have no idea where I’m going.
    You even have my Apple laptop right!

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    pbarnrob said, 3 months ago

    Robert A. Heinlein once gave a commencement address at Annapolis; it was summarized in an Analog editorial, but you can find the thing elsewhere (Google’s your friend). It’s also quoted as a 1947 essay titled “On the Writing of Speculative Fiction” in several places.

    These five steps each cut the wannabe writing population by IIRC about half, and that’s why there are, of the ~250m population of the US at the time, only a couple thousand full-time writers. (Paraphrasing):

    
    
    1. Write it down.
    
    
    2. Finish it.
    
    
    3. DON’T change, except by an editor’s request.
    
    
    4. Actually be brave and send it out; you’ll get rejections.
    
    
    5. KEEP sending it out until it sells. Then you’re a writer.
    
    

43. 

    The Old Wolf said, 3 months ago

    I hope I’ve given a clue somewhere as to how much I enjoyed today’s strip…

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    kitschpainter said, 3 months ago

    The people who read Non Sequitur are definitely the most interesting of all….Wiley, you rock.

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    hintzy said, 3 months ago

    I read that Douglas Adams invented the “Infinite Improbability Drive” that powered the Heart of Gold because he needed a way to rescue Arthur and Ford after being pushed out of an airlock:

    “Adams realized that he had worked the story into a dead end, thinking in frustration that the only solutions would be ‘infinitely improbable.’ In a flash of insight and what Adams called ‘mental jujitsu’, the Infinite Improbability Drive was born.”

46. 

    UEME96 said, 3 months ago

    I think it is great that Wiley actually participates in this website. Wiley, I think you are a creative individual. Please keep up the good work.

    This message brought to you by a proud CONSERVATIVE.

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    Potrzebie said, 3 months ago

    Hintzy: the IPD is a fine example of Deus Ex machina.. For another fine example, watch Olive the other reindeer.