01-18-2018, 10:15 PM
pdq wrote::goodone:
I enjoyed this take:
Dear God:
...The latest draft chapter you’ve submitted, “Stormy Weather,” was frankly difficult for me to read all the way to the end. For one thing, the central plot point — the reality TV president ends up having paid a six-figure settlement to a porn star to cover up his affair with her at the time that his new (third!) wife was pregnant — is just incredibly over the top. I mean does she have to be a porn star?
And the narrative details! She spanks him with a copy of Forbes?!? Does the phrase “heavy-handed” mean anything to you any more? You used to be so much better than this.
Also, the business about how he told her she reminded him of his daughter was tasteless in the extreme.
Although I don’t want to overstep my editorial bounds by lecturing the Lord God, Creator of Heaven and Earth, and of All Things Seen and Unseen, I must gently remind you that, to be both aesthetically pleasing and rhetorically effective, a satire must retain some minimal degree of plausibility.
Sincerely yours....
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