When I began to write,
I found out that this was
the best way to make sense of my life.

—John Cheever

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How to Deal with the Voices In Your Head

How to Deal with the Voices In Your Head

by | May 5, 2015 | 1 comment

  At least Dr. Jekyll was never both himself and Mr. Hyde at the same time (for more modern readers, that should say, “At least Dr. Banner was never both himself and the Hulk at the same time,” if you catch my drift—who was it that said, “There are no new...

I know I was writing stories when I was five.
I don’t know what I did before that . . .
just loafed, I guess.

—A. N. Whitehead

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Here Be Dragons

Here Be Dragons

by | Apr 28, 2015 | 3 comments

You’ve probably heard the story before. Ancient mapmakers painted in mountains, rivers, bodies of water, and all that they knew on their maps, but the information was always limited. At some point there would be lands or waters beyond which they had no idea what they...

Read a lot,
write a lot
is the great commandment.

—Stephen King

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