Me, trying to be normal:

This is becoming a list of books I need to reread!

Cold Turkey by John Lennon.

Photo of a rural train crossing. Cover of The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry.

Choose 30 books that you’ve read that have been turned into movies &/or tv shows; covers only, no explanations.

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18/30

I saw this in the theater! What a hoot. And a Ted Cassidy appearance as an extra bonus.

And the commas! Curse the commas!

Signal boast
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My go-to method as well. I know people do this on their computers, but I’m hopelessly analog.

A man in a suit stands in front of flowers. Being There by Jerzy Kosinski

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17/30

Past, Present and Future by Al Stewart.

E. L. Doctorow and quote: "Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining but the feeling of being rained upon."

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Illustration of a naked woman’s leg bent with a young man in a graduation gown in the space. Cover to The Graduate by Charles Webb

been turned into movies &/or tv shows; covers only, no explanations.

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16/30

Great book!

Now reading my own handwriting….

Black Sabbath - War Pigs YouTube video by Brian Martens Music

War Pigs- Black Sabbath

a woman is standing in a hallway with her arms outstretched in a movie . Alt: a woman is standing in a hallway with her arms outstretched in a movie .

One thing I struggle with when writing fantasy is getting characters from Point A to Point B in 3 sentences or less.
The ghosts of Wm. Morrison and ER Eddison stand behind me whispering “It’s such a nice imaginary world, take us on a tour.”
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Cover to Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children’s Crusade by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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15/30

Any studio album by KISS, although I did see them in concert.

My first draft is handwritten, and I always go back and add notes in margins, staple index cards to pages, or even insert whole pages.

‘Leftover Yarn’ would be a great name for a novella.
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‘Leftover Yarn’ would be a great name for a novella. Just saying.

The celebrity Bitcoin influencer phase went so well that a new crop of celebrity AI influencers has decided to give it a go.
Craven money grab, per usual.

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As writers we are often told to know our audience and write with them in mind. Those people are not my audience. I will be polite and leave it at that.

Book cover of a globe inside a cave. Solaris by Stanislaw Lem

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14/30

two men are driving a car with the words " we 're on a mission from god " ALT: two men are driving a car with the words " we 're on a mission from god "

It’s a classic story, really. Two combatants.
One from the Southside of Chicago. One from an upscale Queens neighborhood.
Parochial school and Military Academy.
White Sox versus Yankees.
An American Epic.

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Don’t forget to have short guy say ‘Bub’ a lot.

Painting of men clinging to a deflating hot air balloon over waves. Cover to Jules Vernes’ Mysterious Island

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13/30

Absolutely. The long stuff is obviously doing just fine without my two cents. A friend gets pure joy out of rereads of Jordan and more power to him.

Gotta go with Steve Howe.

Lately, I’ve been dialed into sentence structure and variation.