“How many last names should a sane person have?” #writing #throwawayline

“A country ain’t a country if it denies others.” #writing

“Knowing is relarely about understanding.” #life

“Murder Most Rare” “Murder Most Obnoxious” “Murder Most Vile” “Murder Incoming” “Murder Deserved” “Murder Most Gratuitous” “Happy Murder Town” “Murder On the Mind” #writing

“The dead pool at the bottom eventually.” #writing #throwawayline

When writing, if you prefer going down rabbit holes than writing, you should be a researcher instead of a writer. #writing #research

“Delaware isn’t where the cool people go. It’s where they go to die.” #writing

I have discovered that the problem with lists is that, at their heart, they are a list and not something better. #lists #productivity #failure

“Words flowed out of him as they did with a writer struggling to find a word.” #writing

Sometimes what you want isn’t what others want. #life

Good morning. We all get good times and bad. Some focus one one, some the other. Time for the ceremonial coffee.

Photo up. photosaday.visualnewt.com #photography

Cool. I got the Creatures, Crimes, and Creativity panel assignments. I’m moderating two: AI-Assisted Writing & Ethical Considerations, Animal Characters That Jump Off the Page, and on a panel for Short-Form & Serial Content. It should be fun. #writing #mdc3con

Another week begins. What will you do to make the world a better place? Time for the ceremonial coffee.

Radishes are highly underrated. #food

Remember when you weren’t supposed to wear a hat indoors? Now it’s a thing—really bad hats and caps. #character

Another decent writing day. It’s time to start pulling the strings together. #writing

Happy National Take Your Cat to the Vet Day.

The Gathering: Tux was back on the deck this morning. He hasn’t been around for a couple of months. Tangerine has settled into a routine of being a house cat. #feral #cat

“I find humans are always lost.” #writing #throwawayline

Observed: Two good ole’ boys came in to the restaurant, obviously already smashed. Belching and ‘hitting’ on the employees. Southern charm, it ain’t. #character #failure

“Wars are meant to be fought, and never about arbitration or ‘talks’. Politics, is about making wars acceptable.” #writing

Developers: If you design an app with AI, make sure you give the users an option of disabling/removing it. Not everyone wants to be on the AI-bandwagon. #ai #programming #design

Someone asked me to brew a pumpkin ale. I think I’ll make a pumpkin mead instead. I haven’t tried that. #brewing #mead #pumpkin