You know, he walks you right through all of the hard parts of making thinking up characters and blundering through your plot. Completely unrelated to his book, I have this awesome quote that I will now paraphrase for lack of remembering exactly how it went:
"Writing a novel is like driving up a mountain road at night - the headlights only show 15 feet in front of you, but you can drive up the whole mountain that way." -Somebody neat
3.) I know. Damndamndamn. I wrote my main character as an outlet when I was thirteen, now I'm having the hugest difficulty steering her away from thirteen-year-old Melanie. Mannerisms help. She now hawks and spits whenever she feels like it. Still working up to it
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LaVey's set of ideals regarding individualism and self-indulgence is barely - barely - defensible as a philosophy, but with the addition of ritual trappings and religious aspects to a non-theistic philosophy just screams "I do this because it pisses people off!" like some fourteen year old who carves pentagrams into his desk at school.
Satanism was actually created to make fun of, I believe, the Catholic Church. Everything was supposed to be exactly the opposite. It didn't start out to be serious, but then people discovered it and took it that way. At least that's what the History Channel told me one day. Not always sure I can trust them. They have been wrong before.
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"Writing a novel is like driving up a mountain road at night - the headlights only show 15 feet in front of you, but you can drive up the whole mountain that way." -Somebody neat
-turtle
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LaVey's set of ideals regarding individualism and self-indulgence is barely - barely - defensible as a philosophy, but with the addition of ritual trappings and religious aspects to a non-theistic philosophy just screams "I do this because it pisses people off!" like some fourteen year old who carves pentagrams into his desk at school.
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