“What’s the worst thing that can happen?” “I could be killed.” “We all die. Would you rather die being yourself or live a lie?” “I’d rather live a lie.” “Join the rest of humanity.” #writing #throwawayline

I consider going back and rewriting or re-editing my earlier books. Doing so would change them in a way that reflects the way I am now and not what I was when I wrote them. The mistakes exist to teach me what I have done wrong. Erasing mistakes is never a solution. #writing #life #success

Messing with people’s minds is what authors do. #writing #author

“The way to follow-up success is either with failure, the same level, or a better success. Oh. There is one more option. You don’t follow up. Each brings its own advantages and disadvantages.” #writing

“He was life-adjacent.” #writing

“Exagerrate the impossible. Then do it! That’s how you become a legend.” #writing

“Having ‘a mind of your own’ isn’t something most people have. Most people want to be like everyone else––the cool ones. They want to belong. Belonging means giving up your individuality. You can’t think individual thoughts when you want to belong to the horde.” #writing

Structure auteureist.com/page-3/bl… #writing

Schedule of sessions for Creatures, Crimes, and Creativity conference is up. creaturescrimesandcreativity.com/2025-pres… See you there. #mdc3con #writing #author #books

“Sometimes, nature has no idea what course you’re trying to take.” #writing.

Observed: “They were old. They didn’t understand the music. They sat and drank their wine.” #writing #character

“It’s easy being stupid. That’s why everyone does it.” #writing

Cool. The Genre Bending session of C3 is gone after I told them we’d done it last year. Now I’m on a panel with Jodie Lynn Nye. #writing #mdc3con

Publishing a book is performance art. #writing #publishing

“A mysterious wizard appears through a portal and tells you that you suck at being a human. He tells you that you must save yourself. He hands you a stick and a notebook, and then promptly disappears. What do you do?” #writing #prompt

“Even his closest friends stayed away.” #writing #throwawayline

“Freedom cannot be granted or given. It can only be taken away.” #writing

Ok. Here are the panels i’m scheduked on, so far. #writing #mdc3con

“So how does it feel to be resurrected each morning?” #writing

“Interesting how left and right are more important than correct and wrong.” #writing

“Aliens come to earth and provide peace, freedom, and utopia to all humans. But some humans decry it as interfering with their own vision for humanity.” #writing

“Life is too easy. That’s why things go wrong.” #writing

“Often your training is wrong, and you have to do the right thing. This takes courage that is never taught.” #writing

“Darkness hides the light. It never consumes it.” #writing

“Gods have always been used to control human behavior, either through hope or fear. That is the purpose of religion.” #writing