Recipe for disaster, or how to write a short story

Many a time I find myself unable to come up with a proper subject or idea to get into and write in here. I guess inspiration does depend on one's tiredness, and that it can't be at its optimum every single day, but I know this: there's a secret. A sort of magician's hat out of which you pull ideas and put them together. It goes like this:

- Pull a set of 3 random words from the dictionary
- Make a situation out of them, the funniest one you can if possible
- Throw a couple of people from a predefined list of characters into it
- Mix it all together
- Add humor and a good pint of irony
- Shake it all up until you start getting bubbles
- Add two frog heads and a crow foot
- Smash and stomp it into a dough-ish mass
- Add water to the mix and blend it in, until it's liquid enough that you can paint with it
- Get it all on your desktop's screen, preferrably a 24'' one so that it fits appropriately
- Let it dry
- Using a sheet of A3 paper, press it all against the screen once more to break it off gently without dismembering any member of your story (that'd be pretty gruesome)
- Carefully peel it all off
- What remains on your screen is your written story.

I hope you learned something, now I'm off to bed.

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