'I try to leave out the parts that people skip.'
~Elmore Leonard

"The only cure for writer's block is insomnia."  
~Merit Antares

Good news:

This afternoon, my muse came waltzing through the door.

Bad news:

Instead of bringing with him the last chapter of AYW, he brought a whole fucking new story with him.

WTF muse?!?

And now, I'm sitting here with my fingers twitching to start on it.  Fucking twitching.  I already sat down and outlined the whole story, character background, ( Read more... )

Today in my internet travels I came across a site that lists the most common errors in English, and thought that it might be nice to share with anyone who would like to bookmark it and use it as a reference.

Common Errors In English

So, the next time you're unsure as to whether or not to use "their" or "there," or "they're;" "your" or "you're," or ( Read more... )

As human beings, we were blessed with the gift of speech, with a higher consciousness that no other animal on the Earth possesses, and yet, we never fail to forget this, forget what makes us different, sets us apart from all the rest ( Read more... )

Apparently, my laptop hard drive spazzed out on me over the weekend, and everything that I worked on over the past few days got fucked ( Read more... )

"There must have been a time when you entered a room and met someone and after a while you understood that unknown to either of you there was a reason you had met. You had changed the other and he had changed you. By some word or deed or just by your presence the errand had been completed. Then perhaps you were a little bewildered or humbled and ( Read more... )