“This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill – the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill – you stay in Wonderland…” “I choose the green one. I write my own story.” #writing #matrix #hrowawayline

“He was a master of Shadow Wizardry, making shadows appear to be a person or an animal that isn’t there. In a pinch, he could even make the shadows disappear. It was the highest form of magic, and the least expected.” #writing

“Some run from the past. Others fear the future. Then there are both who can’t decide. All fail at life.” #writing

“Group IQ is the cumulative intelligence of a Board of Directors. It’s inversely proportional to avarice.” #writing

“So have you had a revelation? Maybe you should wander around a desert while dying of thirst.” #writing

“If you laugh, you die.” #writing #prompt #montypython

“Boy, it’s not how fast you can shoot that matters. It’s how fast you can aim and pull the trigger.” #writing

“Humans are only predictable when there are no aliens living among them. Well even then, if they learn there are aliens. Then they panic and declare war.” #writing

“Time isn’t a constant. Stop trying to be constant.” #writing

I’m writing a Sherlock Holmes short story for this year’s C3 anthology.With any luck, it will make it in. #writing #mdc3con

“There are still problems in the 42nd century. Most of them are still human, or humans relying on the state-of-the-art AI and their power brokers.” #writing

“Money doesn’t buy power. It buys corruption.” #writing

“The dentist pulled out the Bluetooth.” #writing #throwawayline

“Political power is the illusion of power, because it is mostly and easily misused.” #writing

“History is uncertain. That’s why people like to rewrite it.” #writing

Happy Prevent Plagarism Day Yes, it’s a thing, and applies to AI. #writing

Do you spend more time writing or marketing your books? If the answer is marketing, you’re a marketer, not a writer and should market something else. It’s easier than writing. #writing

If your editor or publisher discount your work, get a new one. #writing #editing #publishing

‘Ir/s easier standing up for what is wrong, because you don’t have to die doing it.” #writing

Good writing session today. I wrote the first scene of my short story for the C3 anthology. Now, I hae to throw out/redo my outline. My protagonist isn’t the one I wanted to be the protagonist. #writing #mdc3con #shrotstory

“Some people give away their consciousness and decision making to others.” #writing

OK. I’ve laid out the short story beats while awaiting food. Next, I need to write it out and make it “feel”. #writing

The view at lunch #writing

Well, I have the concept of an idea for the C3 short story. Now I just need to flesh it out. #mdc3con #writing

“If knowledge is power, we are all weaklings.” #writing