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Characters don’t stand nose to nose and take turns speaking. People are selfish. So too are characters. Characters want to talk. They want to be heard. They don’t wait their turn like polite automatons. They can interrupt each other. Finish one another’s sentences. Derail conversations. Pursue agendas. Dialogue is a little bit jazz, a little bit hand-to-hand combat. It’s a battle of energy, wits, and dominance.
CHUCK WENDIG
Writing is trying hard to do two things, as I see it. One is to be entertaining in itself. Any page of good prose has something of the quality of a poem. It’s interesting in itself even if you don’t know the story or quite what you’re reading. It has a kind of abstract dynamism. But also it is trying to deliver images and a story to a reader, so in that sense it should be kind of invisible.
JOHN UPDIKE
We are captives in the madman's game of chess. We are the ants crawling tunneling through the ant farm. The President and de-facto government men were humiliated and abused as children and now they are destroying the nation to decimate their fathers. I know. I get it. I had a monster mother who humiliated and abused me daily but I regularly slay her by writing out the poison rather than destroying another human life.
I woke in agony 4x during the night after shoveling slush for a few hours yesterday.
When I broke up with my boyfriend in college my parents invited HIM to come home their house for the holidays instead of me. They never liked him but then they now had a common enemy.
On my birthday they told me they went backstage after seeing my friends perform on Broadway. They told me everyone screamed my name in happiness, but "We don't understand why they like you."
February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned. It is a good time for building fires, reading books, watching movies, and cranking up random sex orgies with the neighbors.
Hunter S. Thompson
