“When your hands are covered in blood, use a red towel.” #writing #throwawayline

“No one will miss me when I’m gone. No one misses me when I’m here.” #writing #throwawayline

If Walt Disney taught authors anything, it was that to make your reader feel something, kill the dog, or the mother deer. They may hate you for doing it, but you will have felt something as a reader, which is why most people read. #disney #book #emotion #writing

“Aren’t you supposed to be dead?” “I am, but I keep beating the odds.” #writing #throwawayline

No matter how bad it may be, you’re better with your sense of humor than an empty whiskey barrel full of drunk termites. #humor #life

“His breath was as fetid as a festering fetus in a garbage dump.” #writing #throwawayline

“I shall pull down the sun and bring the endless night.” “How—how will you do that, Master?” “I shall fling this useless planet into the void.” “Wasnt’t that Space:1999?” “That was the moon and a TV show. My plans are bigger.!By the way, you’re an idiot.” #writing #throwawayline

“He stared intently. He stared with intentions most foul. He was The One.” #writing #throwawayline

“Nobody likes the blues. That is, no one who is already dead.” #writing

Observed. His long gray beard had a top-knot. #writing #character

“Life is easy, if you are.” #writing #throwawayline

“If you dont know why you are crying, you cry. If you know why you are crying, you stop.” #writing

First draft done. It’s not as polished as my typical frst drafts, but it has Doctor McCoy–“good bones”. #writing #shortstory

“You should be like a river. It doesn’t know where it’s going. It just does.” #writing

“You can’t know everything. Not even God knew what would happen when he went on vacation” #writing #throwawayline #life

I forgot how much I like Leuchtrum journals. Great paper for fountain pens. #fountainpen #writing

I’m still working on this Drunken Werewolves story. It’s just taken another turn—this time to something darker. It will need a whole lot of polish to make it flo and read well, but I like the core. #writing #shortstofy

It’s time to wind down, eat and write some more. #food #writing

“Finishing is always harder than starting because you don’t know how hard something will be. Starting is hard because you’re lazy.” #writing

“Your destiny is in what you carry—the acorn. In it, you can discover all the secrets of the universe. That is, if you can fight off all the squirrels.” #writing

“He was so dumb, he thought he could get drunk on cocktail sauce.” #writing #throwawayline

“Singing is more than cadence and rhyme. That’s why so many are bad at it.” #writing

“When you wake up screaming, and realize you have no reason to stop once you’re awake. That’s when you question the meaning of life.” #writing

“You are a dynasty of one.” #writing

“Cabbages. That’s the answer.” “Uh?” “Cabbages. If you ain’t got ‘em, you’re a failure.” “I don’t understand. What are you talking about?” “Cabbages are a litmus test.” #writing #throwawayline #chemistry