Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
– Stephen King
haiku 354
cloudy –
another classmate’s obit
in the paper
#quikfic 141
The captain had never seen such a storm and never expected to again. He saved a whiskey bottle from falling. No need to die sober.
Quotable 241
To my mind the best one can ever do as a writer is be honest about your background and partialities and try to understand how they affect your outlook, to do violence to your own cliches, to practice compassion over caricature.
– Laurie Penny
haiku 353
evening lights –
Venus over
neon
#quikfic 140
He filled a coffee mug with vodka and drank it down. Antifreeze. He didn’t want to, but he remembered when a Texas summer was hot.
Quotable 240
Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.
– Terry Pratchett (1948 – 2015)
haiku 352
warm March evening –
holiday lights still shine
on porches, bushes
#quikfic 139
Sarah came out of the hotel bathroom to see a handsome but unfamiliar man on the bed. “Hello, Tina,” he said. Sarah went with it.
Quotable 239
You can’t think yourself out of a writing block; you have to write yourself out of a thinking block.
– John Rogers