Inga Slinger, a rhymer struggling to live on pomes, thought she'd earn more money by de-versifying and writing novels. So she went to learn the pulp fiction author's craft at the Hackademy.
When her fellow students asked why she called her stylus Charlie, she said it would help her succeed to have a pen named!
She got plenty of inkcouragement at the school, and soon wrote and published her first novel, a smashing success called "Ocean Storms."
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But she couldn't get started on her second potboiler, "Sea Quell." The problem was she lived in a one-story house!
Soon after she moved to the top floor of a high-rise, her second novel, written in rhyme, was a smashing success. She soon became a master of the you know verse.
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When a talk-show host asked her why she based her novel on the third book of the New Testament, Inga said she thought it would be Luke-rative!
Late in her career, she decided to write a strange supernatural tale, so she bought a weird processor.
When asked to sum up her achievements, she said: "I used to be a mere poet, but now I'm one of the prose!"
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