“If you screamed loud enough you could scare away the animal attacking you. Modern life doesn’t work that way. Things you can’t scare away by screaming, we call horrors. We live in a time where screaming may make you feel better before you die, but most things are horrors.” #life #writing

“The blood pooled around the body. Too bad the body didn’t care and went about its business of killing. As the saying goes, simplify your life by killing those around you. Once you’re dead, your life is pretty simple so all that is left is the killing.” #writing

“Kings are just fat peasants in draperies.” #writing

“The thing that makes books high-class is they are sold by the word rather than by the pound.” #writing #throwawayline

“Power lost remembers power powerfully and wants more.” #writing #life #failure

“The Cat And The Warlock” now has a blurb. auteureist.com/CatAndWar… #book #writing #publishing #pulp

You may promote my books all you want, but don’t expect me to pay you to do it. I get a ton of calls from companies trying to make money off me. #marketing #publishing #spam #book #writing

“When madness calls do you answer?” #writing

“You don’t need money or things to be rich.” #writing #life #success

Writing environment now. #writing

“Sometimes, life marches on, but mostly it walks in a broken cadence.” #writing

“I’m not anti-work. I’m anti-effort.” #writing

I’m spending the morning planning “To Gain Wisdom - Coins of Destiny 3”. I’m leaning toward making it more of a political thriller. #writing #planning

“Somedays son, you have to get up and just get on with it.” #writing

“Growling, ‘You ain’t gonna live,’ he pulled out his Roscoe, which was an ugly and mean-looking little man.” #writing #throwawayline

“He carried a ladder everywhere he went. People always told him he should climb it” #writing #throwawayline

“Immortality is just a letter away from immorality.” #writing

“The problem with literacy is that you have to know how to read.” #writing

Observed: a guy on an ebike , panhandling. #life #character #writing

“Being clever is like being a magician. You don’t see the sleight of hand. There is no magic in being seen.” #writing

“Some question what was. We call them historians. Some question the future. We call them pessimists. Some questions now, but no one answers.” #writing

“Golf should be a team sport where players beat each other with their clubs, sort of an elevated hockey.” #writing #sport

“She was a biddybody.” #writing

Just because you’re the protagonist doesn’t mean you’ll win. It just means everyone is looking at you. #writing

“The beheadings had a nice way of distracting the peasants from the fact that the Emperor wasn’t wearing any clothes.” #writing