Today's Challenge
November 6, 2008
I'm editing an interview with geneticist Stephanie Sherman and reading about something called the "Sherman Paradox," which is named after her. So I was thinking, wouldn't it be cool to have something like a syndrome or effect or paradox named after you?
The Terry Effect: an unexplained phenomenon wherein publishers that contract with the author go out of business prior to the contracted manuscript's publication.
The Terry Corollary: in which publishers drop authors mid-contract for no particular reason.
Anyway, if you had one named after you, what would it be?
Cheers,
Mark Terry
posted by Mark Terry at 6:24 AM
12 Comments:
My PI character sometimes offers up maxims from his imaginary philosophy book.
Rule #3 from Nicholas Colt’s Philosophy of Life: Love will break your heart, and lust will break your bank account.
Rule #3 has been proven many times, and is universally accepted as being true.
Mark:
The Orloff Paradox: A.k.a., the Target Black Hole. When going to Target to buy socks and boxer shorts for your children, it is impossible to spend less than $300.
Yes, I suppose the Terry Paradox might be: the number of trips to the high school to pick up and deliver Oldest Son is directly proportional to the cost of gas price per gallon.
The Nagel Paradigm: The more education you have, the smaller the starting salary.
My word verification is gonickh. So if you know anyone named Nick H. that is competing in a sport, bet on him.
The Nagel Paradigm strikes me as being similar to the Stephen King Effect, which he, though did not name it, said to the effect: if your work is appreciated by critics there's a very good chance you will be sitting down to a fine dinner of Alpo and Cheerios.
The Fondren Paradox: it's cheaper to eat out than to buy groceries.
I like Brooks Smith's: The talismanic phobia of a blank page.
Spy
That's a paradox, that's for sure. I've sort of bought into it, but I'm not sure my wife has.
Richmond,
Or "screen" as it were.
The Parrish Impediment: when an agent stops taking your calls because the first editor who reads your manuscript doesn't drive a pickup truck full of money to the agent's bank and hire the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes to dance on the agency lawn.
Eight tacos at taco bell: $8.
Eight homemade tacos: $25.
Control of the quality of ingredients in your tacos: Priceless
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