I'm pretty sure I'm connected to the moon.

I am seeing arguments in favor of hiring, for the highest ranking job in the country, someone completely incompetent at any human task, who would not even qualify for any single job in the same country --not one. And don't tell me that things are not going downhill.

18 Pieces of Writing Advice 1—Don't "kill your darlings." Just copy/paste your prized phrases/sentences/passages that don't fit in your current piece into a different file for future use. 2—Try moving sentences/paragraphs around. 3—When in doubt about whether to delete

Is there a filter setting on X that will allow me to not receive videos of people being murdered or having fatal accidents in my feed? I’m for free speech but also I’d like a filter option please.

My friend @Gre88Stewart 's incredible book "Let It Out" just dropped. Highly reccommended for writers, artists, musicians, and anyone looking to live a more creative life #letitout #creativity #writers #musicians amazon.com/dp/B0DDHV7RPV?…

The Off Broadway plays “Fatherland” and “Blood of the Lamb” explore the grief, anger and fear of Americans who no longer recognize the country they once loved. nyti.ms/4gD59cO

If you’re headed to the desert this weekend (...and really, why wouldn’t you be?) come see me at the 29 Palms Book Festival panel: “Transitioning Crime Fiction and Literary Nonfiction into Film Noir.” I’ll discuss my adaptation of Deanne’s Stillman’s brilliant Desert Reckoning.

“You could not be born at a better time than the present, when we have lost everything.” —Simone Weil

Make sure you have a private life. Every so often, do something no one knows about. Go see a movie alone and don’t tell anyone. Press a flower in a book and tell no one. Drive to the neighboring town, walk around, and come back, and don’t tell anyone where you were all day.

hey, Stop writing your scripts in locations that you can’t afford. Your story does not need a mansion, a ballroom, a 200 acre farm, a Michelin star restaurant. you have a living room. you have a bedroom. You have a car. You have a backyard. start there.

He was, truly, one of the good ones. Profoundly generous to so many, in countless ways. And oh, that smile. Proud to have called him a friend. Sending love to his family. Thank you, Josh. #joshwelsh #filmindepndent #RIP hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-n…

help bring Doomers to SF--37 hours left on the indiegogo indiegogo.com/projects/doome…

staged reading of Minotaur in LA this March: elysiantheater.com/shows/minotaur

"For me, the word “writing” is the exact opposite of the word “waiting.” Instead of waiting, there is writing." - Roberto Bolaño

The three most contagious diseases are measles, chickenpox, and status-conscious mediocrity.

I wonder if the fall of Rome was this stupid.

Read even one page of a good book. A classic. Melville, Hemingway, Hawthorne, Emerson, etc. It won’t fight you or critique you. It will just put excellence in your brain.

slowly climbing the literary fiction chart on amazon, retweet tell friends, pre order, just 4 days til it's out (this is my marketing budget) amazon.com/dp/1648211259?…

At our core, we are our quiet unspoken obsessions.

Petty criticism is hidden praise.