Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt
I used to have a really sharp memory. And its loss has proven destabilizing from an identity perspective.
You should never read online comments if you want to keep thoughts above the belt.
People don't hijack planes anymore because that old system of hijacking in order to barter for a prison release or get to a different country no longer works, exactly, because 911 recoded the hostage's interpretation of a hijack. If a hijacker isn't trying to use the plane as a missile, then he is in danger of being killed by the hostages. There is no minor terror threat anymore. No mid-level terrorism.
There are some writers who are done when they finish a draft because they've thought it through beforehand. Whereas I'll finish a first draft and I'm nowhere near done.
If I'd done the discovery before I wrote the book, then there would be nothing to discover. It would feel dutiful instead of exciting.
Every once in a while when I get a migraine, I like to think, "Who hates me today?"
With me, satisfaction is always very fleeting with our work. I always get a little restless with it.
All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.
As a kid I was into horror. I loved horror. Horror was huge. I was always into horror. Goosebumps for me was massive growing up. Horror for me was always a big thing.
My moral standing is lying down.