Writing
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“Heroes must see to their own fame. No one else will.”
― Gore Vidal
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Book Recommendations
Reading: Then We Came to the End
“The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.”
–Oscar Wilde
Book Recommendations
Reading: How to Kill a Witch
“Who knows why we were taught to fear the witches, and not those who burned them,
or those who stood by, watching?”
–Affinity Soul
Book Recommendations
Reading: Talking to Strangers
“I like my villains clever, deep, and driven by pure evil.”
–Fiona Barton
Miscellaneous
If you need permission to take a break today…
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.”
– Anne Lamott
Book Recommendations
Reading: The Keeper
“The nice thing about living in a small town is that when you don’t know what you’re doing, someone else does.”
–Immanuel Kant
Writing
When it’s just not happening…
“Discipline allows magic. To be a writer is to be the very best of assassins. You do not sit down and write every day to force the Muse to show up. You get into the habit of writing every day so that when she shows up, you have the maximum chance of catching her, bashing her on the head, and squeezing every last drop out of that bitch.”
― Lili St. Crow
Book Recommendations
Reading: The Case Against the Sexual Revolution
“He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.”
–John Stuart Mill
Book Recommendations
Reading: The Creep
“Writers are liars my dear, surely you know that by now?”
–Neil Gaiman