Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.
Orson Scott

Comment preview: A lot of times, they're there to do community policing. When I was in high school, the SRO was mostly about engaging with the students, learning what sort of problems we encountered (drug, bullying, etc.), and seeing if there was some way to get help. My ....


Comment preview: A reply I made a few days ago in /r/childfree : kinda of the opposite for me, being the oldest of 2 younger siblings, 10 and 5 right now. I did plenty of parent duties as a teenager with my younger sister and brother. Diaper changes, changing clothes, feed ....


Comment preview: Top five all-time clich s: 5. Playing guitar. Writing sad bastard songs in in the key of 'whiny nasal white guy.' I don't bring my acoustic to parties. *Don't be that guy.* Find an open mic and go there. They exist for that very fucking reason! It's just a ....


Comment preview: I dropped out of a private high school and moved to SoCal to pursue other goals in life. Needless to say, without even a diploma I was not gonna get anywhere. So, I started to research and build a resume and portfolio based on my interests. I ended up meti ....


Comment preview: I'm a guy who graduated in 2012. While attending UIUC I would spend my free time alone, weekends alone, eat alone, and only spoke during class when absolutely necessary. I know the feeling of crippling loneliness very well, but now after having the chance ....


Comment preview: Mark Z. Danielewski's *House of Leaves* - That book crawled deep up under my skin about ten pages in. It terrified the shit out of me to the point I read all 600 pages in one sitting. I stayed up all night. I think it took me about 12 hours to finish it, m ....


Comment preview: Ex-mormon BYU graduate here. Ignoring the anti-mormon BS you'll find: * Reformed Egyptian is not a language any non-mormon linguist recognizes * There is no evidence of jewish ancestry in Native Americans outside of mormon scholars. The FARMS documents sta ....


Comment preview: For my graduation present, my parents bought my girlfriend and I a hotel room. My parents are pretty relaxed about sex, I guess thats because I'm a dude, but whatever its cool. Anyways, her friend came along, and my girlfriend at the time told me "whatever ....


Comment preview: *cp'd from google cache:* I became friends with this guy at high school when we were 15. He was the guy who made me realise that there are a lot smarter people than me in the world. He would effortlessly get top marks in all classes and this continued thro ....


Comment preview: Here it is. http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cam06/what_joke_or_prank_has_backfired_on_you_the_worst/?limit=500 User name was deleted but post was saved from google cache at the time by user bwahaha I became friends with this guy at high school w ....


Comment preview: [Here](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/c7hnu/whats_the_stupidest_thing_youve_seen_an/c0qn3zq) is the comment, long-deleted. However, some had the foresight to save it for posterity, and I reproduce it below: I became friends with this guy at hig ....


Comment preview: One study even shows that its effects an be worse than child abuse from home: http://www.latimes.com/science/la-sci-sn-bullying-worse-than-child-abuse-20150428-story.html Plus people need to know that some people were bullied everywhere they went until the ....


Comment preview: One study even shows that its effects an be worse than child abuse from home: http://www.latimes.com/science/la-sci-sn-bullying-worse-than-child-abuse-20150428-story.html Plus people need to know that some people were bullied everywhere they went until the ....


Comment preview: The *Diatribe from a Navy Seal*, commonly known as the "Navy Seal copypasta," is a well-known short text with several layers of meaning. At its surface, it appears to be a threatening passage from an unnamed narrator (hereinafter referred to as "the Seal" ....


Comment preview: *Ki-LUNK!* Tony slammed the door shut behind him so hard that the faux-pine finish actually crunched slightly under the force. He didn't care, and he loved that he didn't care. He had never been more livid in his life, and in a somewhat sick way he relishe ....


Comment preview: i had to split this in to two parts because it got so long... As a preface, i think i spent about an hour writing, editing, and thinking about this post. seriously. First of all, he chose that specific girl for a reason. She was a *complete* suck up/teache ....


Comment preview: I lost my wife in 1998. I had just taken a IT job at Wake Forest University-Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, NC -about 2.5 hours away from where we lived (Fayetteville, NC). I had gotten out of the Air Force a year before. I was staying with a f ....