hello darkness. sorry, I'm taken.

Something I had to unlearn: giving your character a tragic backstory is not the same as giving them a wound. A backstory is just information. A wound is the thing that makes them flinch at something totally unrelated fifteen chapters later and the reader goes "oh." If the backstory doesn't leave a nerve ending somewhere in the present-day plot, cut it. Nobody needs the trauma. They need the flinch.

i hate it when people mistake "etymology" with "entomology." like, i know where they coming from but it still bugs me

can i have a sip of your cigarette

there’s just no way he fucks good I’m sorry. that’s the appeal. to me

i like when you see a little lizard go skittleskittleskitter and then stop & do some push ups

So full that i see my giant roast chicken as a man stranded on a raft