“Running a close second [as a writing lesson] was the realization that stopping a piece of work just because it's hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when it feels like all you're managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position.”
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“I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.”
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“The future you have, tomorrow, won't be the same future you had, yesterday.”
― Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
― Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
― The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
― The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
Dark Tower
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We seek the Dark Tower, and will travel with Roland throughout the year, reading the Seven as well as Related Holy Texts.
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A place to post deadlines and guidelines and purses and questions and encouragement re: contests and awards for fiction and poetry.
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This group is intended to provide a forum for fans of the Boundary's Fall series, written by Bret Funk, to discuss the books and receive updates on fu ...more
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This group is provides a forum for fans of The Heart of the Sisters, an epic fantasy written by A. Christopher Drown, to discuss the books and receive ...more
Strictly real horror
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