Becoming A Pick-Up Artist

In truth, I’ve found that any day’s routine interruptions and distractions don’t much hurt a work in progress and may actually help it in some ways. It is, after all, the dab of grit that seeps into an oyster’s shell that makes the pearl, not pearl-making seminars with other oysters.
–Stephen King

The following is a paragraph from Stephen King’s On Writing that I feel sums up how interactions should go:
The situation comes first. The characters–always flat and unfeatured, to begin with–come next. Once these things are fixed in my mind, I begin to narrate. I often have an idea of what the outcome may be, but […]

My supposed “nap” resulted in 8 hours of restful splendour. Since I’m awake, I might as well read.

I am home, and I am tired. I, for the first time, went inside my cities “country” bar for my buddies birthday, who is also in the community. To make a long story short we did lots of looking around and lots of pickup talk. Though later into the evening in the smoking section, where […]

Dumbo got airborne with the help of a magic feather. … Just remember that Dumbo didn’t need the feather; the magic was in him.
-Stephen King