Writing Exercise: MAKE UP A QUOTE!! Inspire me, Thrill me, Enlighten me.

[Devils.Advocate]

So quoting famous people are easy.

Everyone and mums know how to find a good quote. It was harder in the 90s but google really change the quoting game.

When you are desperate in a party trying to pull Satre quotes out of you clench butt cheeks is no longer as impressive since everyone has probably been on Brainyquotes.com. What's worst some wise guy (usually me) with a phone or a half-decent memory will instantly call out any misquotes, misattribution or misinterpretations.

But!!!

The game we are going to play is here is much better it is not to quote existing good inspirational sayings.

BUT TO MAKE THEM UP!!!

Since this community is mostly writers... of course some of you might UR or SR tier in writing skill that is ultra quotable in all your novels or daily lives, where your lips are uttering golden pros between every breath and all your words will be on T-shirts from the day you speak them till the end of time.

But others are not.

HOWEVER, it does not mean we can't engineer quotability... for FUN!!

The game is simple, MAKE UP A QUOTE!!

DONT QUOTE A QUOTE!!! MAKE ON UP EVEN IF YOU DON"T BELIEVE IN IT!

Actually, extra points for making a quote you don't believe in!!!

If you like... if you made an exceptionally filthy insight, you can declare you don't believe... and remember to make it look like a quote!!!

E.G.

"As if often said by ancient Chinese philosophers, it pays to know where you are going, before taking the first step... since you will never know if you will get good GPS coverage." - Devil's Avocardo, 2020.

OR

I DON"T BELIEVE THIS INSIGHT BUT
"Romance.... is like a tissue... if you cry in it too much and it just... falls apart " - Devil's Avocardo, 2020.

Why write quotes you don't believe in? Why pretend to believe in something,? Isn't that just the basic of writing believable characters are all about?

Plus, aren't making "insights" you believe in too easy? Where is the challenge in that?!

 

[CakeEatsNothing]

Trust doesn't equal obedience.

 

[CupcakeNinja]

So quoting famous people are easy.

Everyone and mums know how to find a good quote. It was harder in the 90s but google really change the quoting game.

When you are desperate in a party trying to pull Satre quotes out of you clench butt cheeks is no longer as impressive since everyone has probably been on Brainyquotes.com. What's worst some wise guy (usually me) with a phone or a half-decent memory will instantly call out any misquotes, misattribution or misinterpretations.

But!!!

The game we are going to play is here is much better it is not to quote existing good inspirational sayings.

BUT TO MAKE THEM UP!!!

Since this community is mostly writers... of course some of you might UR or SR tier in writing skill that is ultra quotable in all your novels or daily lives, where your lips are uttering golden pros between every breath and all your words will be on T-shirts from the day you speak them till the end of time.

But others are not.

HOWEVER, it does not mean we can't engineer quotability... for FUN!!

The game is simple, MAKE UP A QUOTE!!

DONT QUOTE A QUOTE!!! MAKE ON UP EVEN IF YOU DON"T BELIEVE IN IT!

Actually, extra points for making a quote you don't believe in!!!

If you like... if you made an exceptionally filthy insight, you can declare you don't believe... and remember to make it look like a quote!!!

E.G.

OR


Why write quotes you don't believe in? Why pretend to believe in something,? Isn't that just the basic of writing believable characters are all about?

Plus, aren't making "insights" you believe in too easy? Where is the challenge in that?!

When in doubt, use drugs

 

[CakeEatsNothing]

"The d in team stands for disappointment."

 

[Discount_Blade]

If something smiles at you with far too many teeth, you should probably shoot it.

 

[Devils.Advocate]

"The d in team stands for disappointment."

"There is no "I" in "team"... but if you rearrange the letters you get "meat"... and meat is great... in so many ways" - Devil's Avocardo, 2020.

 

[CL]

Getting tangled up in so many inconsistencies can leave you in knots. Writing your way out of it will leave you threadbare.

 

[CakeEatsNothing]

When in doubt, use drugs

I have a feeling you like drugs..

 

[Discount_Blade]

They say the man who leaps from a bridge without a parachute is suicidal, I say he's just isekai-ing himself on his own terms.

 

[CL]

"Don't look." - Best way to get someone to look.

 

[yam.laure]

You either care too much or care too little, there's no 'just right' amount of fucks to give to any particular situation.

 

[Discount_Blade]

The hero will sacrifice himself to save the girl, whom he considers his one true love. I call him an moron. The villain will kill everyone else and kidnap the girl and force her to marry him against her wishes using mind control magic. I call him an amateur. Me? I'll sell her extremely overpriced merchandise, place her in more debt than she can feasibly ever pay back, and then kick her to the curb after she's lost everything she's ever owned trying to meet my monthly payments. Years later, when she's still trying to use her beauty to snag her a rich man to marry and erase her debts, I'll appear out of nowhere, scoop her up, and claim my prize. I call this professional patience and tactical genius.

 

[Piisfun]

I am more bored than a bored board being bored by a bored boar with a bored bore.

 

[CupcakeNinja]

I have a feeling you like drugs..

i've been known to dabble in various....less than legal substances for recreational purposes a time or two

 

[TotallyHuman]

The fool will try their hardest and, with great effort, accomplish the impossible task. The smart will try and do that too. The wise will get someone to do it for them

 

[NotaNuffian]

Never go outside with a half filled anything, if you must venture, go out with a fully charged phone, fully loaded mag and a full sense of disappointment.

 

[NotaNuffian]

A quote from my previous boss, I had to add the later part.

"Problems that can be solved by money aren't problems. But the problem itself is having no money."

 

[Discount_Blade]

Computers have always been good at humiliating me in chess or checkers, but they've never been very good at blocking my windmill kick.

 

[AKitsunex]

If your bored go out and destroy someone's world view

 

[NotaNuffian]

Another quote from my failed, edgelord work that I threw into the dustbin,

"Others are busy making you frown, why not turn their smiles upside down."

Can someone do me a solid and create a haiku out of it? I am most definitely not paying for your work, so I will need "volunteers" for that.