On that previous sad note, I’m downing tools for the rest of 2015. Hope to see you next year.
Year: 2015
OT: Punkin
Early October 2013 — November 20, 2015
She was not the sweetest of cats. In fact, she was downright feisty and even argumentative. But she was beautiful and interesting and loved, and two years is too short a life. I had expected she would still be with me when I turned 65. It was not to be.
last trip to the vet
when we walk in
she’s already gone
Quotable 266
As insane and stupid and sociopathic as the characters acted, it was always important that their motivations be understandable.
– Josh Lieb, producer, NewsRadio
haiku 377
cat and I
pass a yawn
back and forth
Quotable 265
Structure is the key to narrative. These are the crucial questions any storyteller must answer: Where does it begin? Where does the beginning start to end and the middle begin? Where does the middle start to end and the end begin?
– Nora Ephron
haiku 376
all week
same walls
same hacking cough
Quotable 264
Writers often give advice they don’t follow to the letter themselves.
– Tobias Wolff
haiku 375
taco place –
dead bird
where a tree once stood
Quotable 263
Don’t overwrite. Avoid the redundant phrases, the distracting adjectives, the unnecessary adverbs. Beginners, especially, seem to think that writing fiction needs a special kind of flowery prose, completely unlike any sort of language one might encounter in day-to-day life. This is a misapprehension about how the effects of fiction are produced.
– Sarah Waters
haiku 374
more bullets
more tears
more gun sales