“His high-fives consisted of three joints and two snorts.” #writing #character #throwawayline
“He was as lazy as he was productive, heavily leaning toward the former until he fell over since standing was too much work.” #writing #throwawayline
“Work is to make someone else money as you use it to survive.” #writing #throwawayline
Don’t just write what you know. Write what you observe and have learned. Then make up the rest. #writing
What if you are the ghost haunting a body that you think is yours? #writing #prompt
“The world is driven by marketing. Anything can be ‘sold’ to anyone dumb enough.” #writing
“When someone believes science and fact are not to be believed, they should not be believed. After all, to them, belief is more important.” #writing
PSA: Draft beer should more properly be called draught beer. Draught, as in to pull. As in horses. Even if it does make you windy. #writing
“It was a sliver lining n a cloud of platinum.” #writing #life #throwawayline
“God is busy arguing with all the others.That’s why the world is screwed up.” “God is in the Bahamas with Santa.” #writing
Cool. Someone just asked me, jokingly, if I was writing a book. I sold a couple books as a result. Don’t underestimate writing in public, or carrying your book around with you. #writing
“Turn the world upside down and what do you get? A different perspective.” #writing
“He discovered the light within. It consumed him.” #writing
Pitch 3 “Rachael, suffering from PTSD, accuses her friends of betrayal when her daughter disappears. She strikes out on her own, unable to trust anyone, only to discover the President of the United Staes holds the Coin of Knowledge and wants the two coins she possesses.” #writing #coinsofdestiny3
Pitch 2 “When her daughter vanishes, Rachael turns against her friends and embarks on a quest to find her. However, she encounters the government and a power-hungry President who desires her coins, only to discover that he possesses the last and final coin.” #writing #coinsofdestiny3
Pitch 1 “Rachael must save her daughter fron the government and a power-mad President who wants her coins. Suffering from PTSD and paranoia, Rachael must fight everyone and everything around her, only to realize she can’t return to her life and survive alone.” #writing #coinsofdestiny3
“He died by the sword. He had mortgaged his life to the hilt.” #writing #throwawayline
Just heard someone say: “He’s a sandwich looking for a picnic.” #writing
“He wasn’t so much worried about what to do, but to whom.” #writing #throwawayline
“A god is just something with more power or technology than you who doesn’t notice if it squashes you like an ant. A god who worries about the ants has weaknesses and no god. A god needs no followers, believers, supplicants, pets, or servants. Those are human needs.” #writing
“He raged through the hardware store, destroying all of the tools. It was a chainsaw massacre.” #writing #throwawayline
“Politics is apolitical. It’s all about power and greed.” #writing
“You reinforce the junk in your mind by wondering, thinking, and contemplating on it rather than focusing on thinking rational thoughts. You relive your past successes and mistakes, and dream and dread your future rather than focusing on what is happening now.” #writing
“Your mind is full of clutter, misplaced ideas, knowledge, and litters of trash. You need a mind-wipe, but you’ve been wired to accumulate junk.The best you can do is toss out the things you hold on to, whether dear or not and start over. Maybe the percentage of debris will be lower.” #writing
For every hundred good lines I throw out, I find one that I use that is mediocre. #writing #throwawayline