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It’s time to call it a day.

If you can’t tell a story, you’ll never make your point

#life #writing

Focus is commendable as long as you haven’t lost your perspective.

#life #failure

Someone needs to explain what “Prime Days” are, apart from a marketing scheme for Amazon to make more money.

#marketing #failure

Their follow up question was, “Why do you write then?”

If you know, you know.

#writing

If you’re a parent, and don’t accept advice from non-parents, remember that you have lost your objectivity.

#life #failure

Just had a chat with someone who was surprised that most writer’s (I specifically) don’t make as much as George R.R. Martin…

#writing #reality

Quitting is always acceptable, after you’ve done your best. There is no shame in failure, only in not trying. The secret is knowing when you’ve done your best.

#life #success

“The receipts churned out of the register like a white snake that kept singing ‘Here I Go Again’, falling to the floor in a cascade of white boas.”

#writing #throwawayline

“The snow fell around him, onto him, and into his soul. She was that cold. His heart, however, still held an ember struggling not to die.”

#writing #throwawayline

PSA: “Deadeye” is an acceptable name for either a pirate or a cowboy. Make sure, however, that one eye is literally dead.

#writing

“She wrote fiction of the science variety, not the crap that held dragons and fairies (with an extra ‘e’).”

#writing #throwawayline #character #prompt

“My mud-soaked shoes was all I had to show for a day of fishing with my dad. Laughing, he’d pushed me out of the boat, saying, ‘That’s what you get for disrespectin’. Walk home, if you know where it is.’”

#writing #throwawayline

“Be the evil everyone aspires to be when watching Star Wars.”

#writing #throwawayline

OK. I deserve some food. I’m plowing through the proofing/edits.

#writing

“At the age of twelve, he knew what he wanted to be when he grew up. His destiny was to become a horror; the kind he saw in movies his parents didn’t let him watch.”

#writing

You don’t have to be honest to tell the truth, but you have to tell the truth to be honest.

#life

I’m editing today. I’ve been procrastinating pushing this noir out. I don’t feel it’s good enough (or as good as it could be). I’m sure it’s just my insecurities popping up. I won’t let myself stand in my own way and will get this book out ASAP!

#writing #editing

Happy The Day of the Gong

(Not a Chuck Barris Production)

Good morning. There is joy all around you. You just have to see to find it. Time for the ceremonial coffee.