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Movie idea: Groundhog day, but instead of the person reliving the same day over and over until their chosen love interest falls for them, they live normally but create new clones of their love interest again and again until they find one that falls for them.

The Perfect Puzzle: 7 Tips for Creating Fiendish Mystery Plots

Author Tom Mead pieces together seven tips for creating fiendish mystery plots that will keep readers turning pages late into the night.
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Writer's Digest · The Perfect Puzzle: 7 Tips for Creating Fiendish Mystery PlotsAuthor Tom Mead pieces together seven tips for creating fiendish mystery plots that will keep readers turning pages late into the night.

A heart that's full up like an otyugh lair
A #quest that slowly kills you
Hitpoints that won't heal
You look fatigued & shaken
Break out this railroad #plot
It don't, it don't speak to us

I'll take a quiet life
A handshake of constitution drain
And no stealth rolls & no surprise checks
No stealth rolls and no surprise checks
No stealth rolls and no surprise checks
Please

A quotation from Cicero

Well then, is there anyone — besides those who were glad that he had turned into a king — who did not want this deed to happen, or failed to approve of it afterwards? So all are guilty. All loyal citizens, so far as was in their power, killed Caesar. Not everyone had a plan, not everyone had the courage, not everyone had the opportunity — but everyone had the will.
 
[Ecquis est igitur exceptis eis qui illum regnare gaudebant qui illud aut fieri noluerit aut factum improbarit? Omnes ergo in culpa. Etenim omnes boni, quantum in ipsis fuit, Caesarem occiderunt: aliis consilium, aliis animus, aliis occasio defuit; voluntas nemini.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Philippics [Philippicae; Antonian Orations], No. 2, ch. 12 / sec. 29 (2.12/2.29) (44-10-24 BC) [tr. Berry (2006)]

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