“Science had succeeded in keeping humans alive past two hundred years. It hadn’t succeeded in keeping the will to live alive. Now, the world was full of zombies.” #writing

“Her God was always angry. She didn’t blame it. She’d been taught not to question those more powerful than she. Everyone was more powerful, it seemed. Everyone thought they were God to her. She didn’t care, for she knew that all Gods must die.” #writing

“Beer batter: noun - someone who hits a glass of beer with a bat.” #writing #throwawayline

If you rest, you rust. Stay active. Stay curious. Stay involved. #life #success

When a company or media conglomerate describes their product as a license, they are literally telling you they want your money. #marketing #failure

Photo up. photosaday.weekly.com #photography

Whether weary or worn, welcome the weekend with warm wet arms.

“His was a hollow passion. It was bereft of will and desire.” #writing

You can’t be sane when everyone around you isn’t. – ancient proverb I just made up

“Revenge is never right. Even if they killed teacher.” If you get it, you get it.

The reason parents bring their screaming kids to a restaurant is to allow the kid to scream themselves out so they are quiet at home.

Trauma - #writing

“With a satisfying crunch, the fist slammed into his face, crushing the cartridge in his nose into fragments. Of course, the satisfaction was not his. Blood and other bodily fluids flowed out of his now non-existent nose. He didn’t care. He was more concerned with the spider that crawled over the …

“What do you want to be when you grow up?” “A kind human.”

I haven’t done any proper writing for a week or two. Stuff got in the way. I’ll get back to it this coming week. I need to plan a short story for this year’s C3 anthology and start planning book 2 of my new series. #writing #planning

Do you ever go someplace and find there is no one there you’d want to talk to?

January has been eventful this year. I’m hoping the rest of the year is less so.

I thought I’d miss the Bird site. I don’t. My stress levels are way down and I’m not battered by marketing spam. I do miss talking to some of the people on there who refuse to migrate. #twitter

I hope everyone is having a good frolic this Saturday.

Time for nachos and free-writing.

Today feels like a nachos-for-lunch kind of day. Too bad it’s not lunch yet.

“If the future comes, it will be the result of now.”

Happy National Gift of the Ladybug Day

Good morning. Every moment has a lesson waiting. Time for the ceremonial coffee.

This seems relevant given ChatGPT. #ai