Once upon a time it was a dark and stormy night, and wild herds of clichés roamed the land. All the people were fearful.

“Where there’s smoke, there’s fire,” they said.

And:

“It never rains but it pours.”

While the village fool sat on the green, nursing the mad, precious original idea he once had, mocked by all.

There was a monster under every bed and the ghost of a murdered previous owner in every house.

Not that anyone said anything, of course. Wouldn’t want to cry wolf.

To this town a writer came. Looking around, he shook his head sadly. “This is all a bit useless, isn’t it?” he said to himself. “The joke got old pretty quick, and pretend as I might, this isn’t really going anywhere.”

Thus he decided to tear everything down and start over in the morning.

(The villagers were rather relieved, truth be told.)

Written on the iPad to try out writing in the Documents 2 app. Ultimately went with the Textilus app instead, for its use of the .RTF file format. Disclaimer: I did not, in fact, start over in the morning.