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
Quotable 262
A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.
– Richard Bach
haiku 373
sounds of an eclipse –
horses’ hooves on pavement
and train horns
Quotable 261
One of the surest ways to establish dramatic tension is to have characters in bad situations who are trying intelligently to solve their problems, failing, and falling into worse situations.
– Cory Doctorow
haiku 372
slip her the cash
for some mexican coke
and a doughnut
Quotable 260
The hardest thing about being a writer is convincing your wife that lying on the sofa is work.
– John Hughes