All art is cosmos, cosmos found within chaos.

I think I’m a substack kinda guy

Millennials love writing negative, depressing character arcs. We're a jaded generation.

99% of my weak scenes trace back to broken tension. - Arrives too late in the scene - Divorced from what the character needs - Missing entirely - Painfully flat - Not enough agency

Pretty sure I would solve all of my writing problems by drinking more coffee.

I can't wait for the password revolution. I never want to log into anything ever again.

By far one of the worst uses for AI is asking it to do something I am too lazy to do. I want something (information) but I'm not willing to spend the time to learn it. I'm almost guaranteed to do nothing with what could have been a life-changing learning.

Wild how the cure for every writing problem is just hours of focused work.

College of Charleston is something else

What novel has the finest prose? Need to fill my beauty bucket.

1. Love is the most valuable thing in the world. 2. Attention is the core of love. 3. Those who seek to dominate and monetize your attention seek to steal what is priceless from you.

Don't chase publishing a book. Chase becoming the person who publishes books.

Pretty much my editing process.

Crazy how little time I spend on twitter now that I’ve found substack.

Nothing like spending 40 hrs on your opening scene just to cut half of it.

This is really the *best* soccer players we have in the United States?

Think of the novel you’re writing as a container for everything you’ve learned firsthand about being human: every insight you’ve had about other people; every predicament you’ve gotten into; every relationship you’ve formed/broken; every strange experience you’ve had.

AI is absolutely going to make us dumber. It divorces outcomes from skill which is just weird.

Fr. Robert Prevost compares the despair of atheism with the joy of Christianity