Hey, Ms. P," Tad called, "what's going on?" She let out a slow breath before she answered. "You won't believe this... Brian Murrey tried to eat Scott Morgan." Nick's eyes widened at the unexpected explanation. Had he heard that right?
A shocking event plus utopian imagination plus movement muscle, that's how we get a real leap.
Speaking as a New Yorker, I found [September 11] a shocking and terrifying event, particularly the scale of it.
When the dead body said, "Good evening," Annabel had to face the grim conclusion that it wasn't as dead as she'd hoped.
I once walked in on my grandparents making love...And that's why I don't eat raisins.
What I wanted to do seemed simple. I wanted something alive and shocking enough that it could be a morning in somebody's life. The most ordinary morning. Imagine, trying to do that.
One serial killer sends me a human head in a box, and I get all spooked; Go figure.
Damn where my roof just go? Top slipped off like Janet at the Super Bowl.
You never know in 'Riverdale' who's going to drop off next.
Forty years later, people still swear they can hear his offstage scream.
Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.
I just love the storyline, I thought it was hilarious - I loved that part when we opened the door, we all look ahead and we have to look down and see that we're actually dealing with this little boy who did this horrible thing of ordering a wife through e-mail.
By the time you have your protagonist attempting to assassinate the Pope, you've sort of signaled that everything is on the table.