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I believe almost every author have gone through the terribly uncomfortable period between the time of shedding the seeds of a story and waiting to see it flourish as a published book, spending hours watering and fertilizing it. This is a dreadful period, frustrating and depressing.
Pretend you're not spending $3 to read one of my books but buying me a coffee and having a conversation about yourself.
For god sake, open your eyes...the truth is crimes are real... the trouble is real... the horror is real... OPEN THE FUCKING EYES, you have freedom of speech, freedom do go to jail... My favourite characters are this in the jail!If you ask me with what I will open my eyes, my answer is with the critical edition The Leuchter Reports: Critical Editionby Fred A. Leuchter, The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine, The Common Sense by Thomas Paine
I have high hopes for the book and have already made a down payment on a Ferrari. Well, it__ actually a small metal model of a Ferrari, kind of like a Dinky Toy, but a little bit bigger.
To those that don't believe I'm worth more than what they think of other authors, to hell with them. Call me arrogant and call the police of politeness on me if you wish, because I won't stop until anyone that thinks that is erased from history. I will not only become immortal, but annihilate the memory of the ignorant from the face of the earth. My work will persist in the battles against the stupid and for thousands of years after I'm gone.
When you write a story you're telling yourself the story. When you rewrite your main job is taking out all the things that are NOT the story.
Today is the day that you create worlds, you change lives, you make a something, a someone, out of nothing.Today is the day you become a writer.
Most people think that making a living from books is fun or joyful, but there's much more to it than what the eyes can see, and I wish I had more time for more profitable and also joyful activities.
1. Write like you__l live forever _ fear is a bad editor.2. Write like you__l croak today _ death is the best editor.3. Fooling others is fun. Fooling yourself is a lethal mistake.4. Pick one _ fame or delight.5. The archer knows the target. The poet knows the wastebasket.6. Cunning and excess are your friends.7. TV and liquor are your enemies.8. Everything eternal happens in a spare room at 3 a.m.9. You__e done when the crows sing.
Writing heals the quandaries of life.
I believe that a writer is a person who writes. An author is a person who has written.
You see the world for what it is and what it could be,_ Jack says. __hat you don__ see is the gaping chasm in between _ and that__ what I found.
Away I turned, from the ghosts that brought me to this place. From an insatiable desperation to be wanted and my urge to fill the emptiness inside.
I am shedding.I am not a new me.I am my old me in my new me.I remain, carved with the soul of my knife.My mess scattered all over my countenance. I am me. Take me as I am.
Write down what your reader needs, no more, no less. Reading should be textured, but not obscure. Henry James could make an entire paragraph out of a single sentence. The reader is completely sensory deprived of the story until the words show the way. If a reader were practiced, then James_ prose could be followed and appreciated for its economy and elegance.
To keep your marriage brimming,With love in the loving cup,Whenever you're wrong, admit it;Whenever you're right, shut up."~Happy birthday Ogden Nash! (born 8.19.1902)
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