At the suggestion of Kitten Herder, I added a word to the Addictionary.
storyboard
verb - method of interrogation torture in which the subject is forced to listen to romance novels read aloud until he or she is broken.
USAGE: "Storyboarding was effective in extracting information from the striking writers, but it is not approved of in the Army Interrogation Manual, and so an ethics probe was launched."
I think it can apply not just to romance novels, but to having to listen to any aspring writer talk about the story they're "working on".
Posted by: David Grenier at January 25, 2009 2:50 PMMaggie also wanted to extend it to someone telling you the plot of a movie you've already seen.
Language is a living, extensible thing.
Posted by: James at January 25, 2009 3:54 PMHow about when someone's enthusiastically "explaining" the movie to you while you're trying to watch it for the first time? That's a lot like torture, too.
Posted by: Julie at January 25, 2009 6:38 PMOr hearing someone tell the same story about what happened to him/herself over, and over, and over...
My dad is a masterful storyboarder.
Posted by: Bull at January 25, 2009 8:15 PMThat might be more like a storyborer.
Posted by: Julie at January 26, 2009 11:17 AMGreat word, James.
Ooh, storyborer. Julie, I smell another new word!