“Slow and steady doesn’t win the race. Molasses never did.”
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“Be the wild card. Just don’t be trump.”
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A story is more than technique or a slavish following of an arc or beatsheet. Those are things that help support a weak story. A good story needs no structure. It only needs to affect the reader/listener.
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Observed: “He was the kind of person who lived a quiet life until he decided to go to Vegas and got lucky in more ways than he’d ever been. Then, he had to go to a loan shark.”
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Observed: “He looked like an accountant in an age where accountants were a dime a dozen. Still, he doomscrolled.”
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Observed: “The innocuous man at the bar, who bordered somewhere between pudgy and obese, and wearing a knit sport shirt with an undefinable pattern in vomit green, adjusted his glasses as he scanned the menu, only to doomscroll on his phone.”
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“Think before you pester me again about killing you. I might just do it.”
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“His swagger had nothing to do with his attitude, which mostly held pain due to a spinal injury.”
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“Some days, it doesn’t pay to stay in bed—mostly work days.”
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“Survival of the richest isn’t quite the same as survival of the fittest, is it? With enough money you can even buy evolution. The shrewd liars and their cults have an wide edge when it comes to money.”
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