Overheard: “Can you tell me where I was last weekend? I don’t think I was here.” #writing #character

“Her dark desires rose with the sun; his, with the moon.” #writing

“She rubbed her nose with the back of her hand. The snot continued to pour. Enraged, she propelled her hand into his face, flinging the snot into his eyes.” #writing #throwawayline

Why are kids in high school/college called seniors if they aren’t over 65?

I miss punched paper tape.

I won’t be getting much done next week due to #wwdc

“It’s not a party without the dead.” #writing #throwawayline

It’s time to start on the hard bits of the app. Tomorrow I start working on exporting and importing. #iPadOS #writing #auteureist

Hello. Keep calm. It’s the weekend. Time for the ceremonial coffee.

One thing that I still have look up is paper sizes. There are too many weird ones and the classifications are non-intuitive. www.prepressure.com/library/p…

It’s 2021 and we still have shirts that rumple and need to be ironed. Do people still iron clothes?

The weekend is supposed to be in the 90ºF range. I guess I’ll go outside.

Well I hope everyone worthy of it has a nice weekend.

Photo up: photosaday.weebly.com #photography

So the TV show “American Ninja Warrior” is basically “Marathon Man” without you seeing the person getting killed. #tv #life #failure

If someone told you you had to overcome obstacles, they lied. You can always either walk or work around your obstacles. #life #success

“Sharon hated her parents. They had given her a name that was one letter away from a song title.” #writing #throwawayline

Mosquitos #writing

“For every mosquito he killed, two more took it’s place erupting from the remains of the first. The effect was instantaneous, but the virus had mutated to the point where the mosquitos spawned and passed the larval stage in the blink of an eye. Screaming in pain and terror he flailed at himself with …

“The Assassin” #writing

“The lake was cold with icy fingers stretching to the shore on its surface. The body slammed into the surface and bobbed up and down. Gray/blue smoke curled up toward the blue sky ridged with long trailing clouds. Satisfied with the kill, he made note of the interference patterns on the water. Each …

Just because a person gives up doesn’t mean they have failed. You have to accept their cost/benefit analysis where the cost is greater than the value. #life #business #success

“Don’t accept other people’s dreams as your own.” “But I want to be just like everyone else.” #writing #throwawayline

Editing: Remember “that” is restrictive, “which” is not. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. #writing #editing

I need some almonds. I want to bake a strawberry / plum tart thingy. #baking

You don’t need to be challenged in order to improve. #life #success

Make sure you don’t do anything important after lunch today. Better still, take a half-day off. It’s the weekend. If you haven’t gotten everything done today, you probably won’t and you don’t get paid to sit around the office doing nothing.