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  1. naming characters is so different for screen vs prose: Dimon could be said "diamond" but in prose it's ambiguous (dee-mun? dye-moan?). 7:37 PM Oct 30th from web
  2. Watching cat videos I miss having a cat. Dressing I don't miss picking cat hair. In the bathroom I don't miss slipping on spilt litter. 9:26 PM Sep 11th from web
  3. is it co-dependent of me to worry about a friend who is working on getting over co-dependence... or is that just the normal friend thing? 9:20 PM Sep 4th from web
  4. http://www.thewritenetwork.com - lots of great writing articles. they just added mine, too. 9:16 PM Aug 28th from web
  5. put your prose thru this brevity test before "done": can it be comprehended by reading just one sentence per pararaph. yes = fewer words pls 9:10 PM Aug 21st from web
  6. funny how people can waste time doing the same things people do in video games but since it looks like work they get by with it. 9:14 PM Aug 14th from web
  7. the most utilitarian two letter acronym has to be P.O. = post office, parole officer, purchase order, pissed off. 8:29 PM Aug 7th from Seesmic
  8. when people behave like happy people, it doesn't mean they are necessarily happy... lots of great fakers out there. 2:18 PM Jul 31st from web
  9. who are the people in your story, really? characterization can suggest, but action makes it clear. 11:26 AM Jun 26th from web
  10. every person is eccentric in some manner, characters without similar unique and intriguing aspects won't feel real. 4:44 PM May 31st from web
  11. story structure is not meant to stifle your creativity, rather a favor to your reader/audience and helping to better communicate with them. 11:34 AM May 29th from TwitterMail
  12. story structure is not meant to stifle your creativity, rather a favor to your reader/audience and helping to better communicate with them. 11:34 AM May 29th from TwitterMail
  13. it used to bother me so much that humongous wasn't in the dictionary... 11:18 PM May 26th from TwitterMail
  14. the more synonyms the more likely we can make clever-sounding aphorisms with no basis in reality that we wish were true. 3:14 PM May 24th from TwitterMail
  15. caught a young man reading Fight Club while also eating messy chili fries... conspicuous enough, but still nobody talked to him. 6:30 PM May 21st from TwitterMail
  16. forgive me Father for I have sinned: I read Cliff's Notes of novels I'm otherwise unlikely to finish. also I jaywalk sometimes. 10:41 AM May 20th from TwitterMail
  17. 1/2 in essence all stories are dramatic, but the more situations test characters (conflict) the more relevant it is to an audience or read 8:19 PM May 15th from TwitterMail
  18. early biographers saw little value in sunny portraits. mistakes, missteps, foibles - we learn from these and they all involve conflict. 5:11 PM May 7th from TwitterMail
  19. eavesdropping on argument in apt above me till above-left apt turned shower on and I couldn't hear well enough to get many juicy bits... 6:24 PM Apr 25th from TwitterMail
  20. saw an infant with really long nails. wonder if when grown the child can collect disability from self-blinding due to parents' laziness. 7:26 PM Apr 23rd from TwitterMail