I had a raging crush on Mary Beth Sullivan. She was the cutest girl in my class. On Valentines Day 1962 I got my courage up and gave her the biggest valentine I could find in the store. When I handed it to her she smiled, but handed it back to me. I was crushed. She whispers “My heart belongs to another” and she kissed me on the cheek. Mary went on to found the Sister of the Heart. Save thousand in the Sub continental famines. Last year the pope made her a saint. I light a candle in remembrance
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How Do You Write 100 Word Stories #22
Many folk are using their gene sequencer to sequencer who do you Tom write a 100 word story
I am a thief. I steel bits of soul. I do it when you’re watching, but your not really watching. If you spent the proper amount of time noting me noting you you wouldn’t have time to actually be living. A bit of your soul fills my pages and you never feel the sting or the hurt. You may not recognize yourself if you met eye to eye. You’d chaff at the description, discount the motivation, and be baffled by the internal logic. Why couldn’t you clearly see the you as the you I see. I’m a very good thief.
How Do You Write 100 Word Stories #21
Many folk have taken to knitting Afghans which contain how do you tom write a 100 word story
If actors are the opposite of people surely writers are the bastard children of accounts and merchant marines Doomed to walk the land in daylight searching for a honest story with a lantern of tin. Success is not in the quality of production it is in the strength to persevere when the quality alludes, when the words swirl like the dry ash of a long forgotten flame. We who live and die by the word are cursed with begins incalculable tightly tethered to the knowledge the ends we construct always fall far short of where we wish them to tower.
How Do You Write 100 Word Stories #20
Many folk have flooded Urban Dictionary with the phrase how do you tom write a 100 word story: definition see whacked hack with delusions of adequacy. Zombies. If you don’t got them just hit the delete file button and start over. I know it’s a challenge writing Zombie dialogue, Zombie love scenes and Zombie children’s books wow wish I could help you there. I know what sells. I just don’t know how to get you there. Try spending some time with Young Republicans, get a job in a shopping mall, make a calf brain soufflé severed with a nice Chianti.
How Do You Write 100 Word Stories #19
Many folk have sent carrier pigeons to me asking how do you tom write a 100 word story.
Write what you know that’s the number one on the short list. I know pizza. I can calibrate an oven to 8 tens of a degree. I can tell you the different between Dakota flour to one milled in Texas. I spent six weeks culturing a Mozzarella starter in Palermo. I know Delmontego Inc is the only importer of Seduncken ruby tomatoes. I wrote an article for Pizza Monthly. The editor sent a personal letter back. He wrote: Seek Psychiatric Aid. Now
How Do You Write 100 Word Stories #18
Many folk have taken to tossing notes in bottle into the sea. The message is always how do you tom write a 100 word story. Why do we write. A shot at immortality, admit, come on, come on. But we got a problem here. One is Fahrenheit 451, not the book, the burning thing. A close second is cheap paper is made with a slow releasing acid, bye bye book. Well there’s online, until a random well place solar flair. I have taken to welding. Cutting each letter out of steel. What about rust you say? Not at the pole.
Closer to the end
When I was 20 I work with a bunch of guys in their 40s. As I raced about and rail about they would shack their heads. What? You’ll see. See what? Then they would walk away laughing. As I approach the edge of 60 I’ve had 40 years to ponder why 40 can’t transfer wisdom to 20. For the longest time I thought it was matter of not being about to hear or even listen. But it was really something more subtle. It was the inability to see the trip as infinitely more rewarding that the arrival at the destination.
How Do You Write 100 Word Stories #17
Many folk have asked Kathy Lee Gifford to come out with line of clothes called how do you tom write a 100 word story. I get paid $1000 a word. Someone at the MacArthur foundation heard Laurence’s podcast and whoosh I’m getting checks that would choke a horse. I could write a novel or poetry collecting, but really folk, dollar to word ratio gets pretty meager. Keep the word count down, damn your entering Bill Gates rate. I’ve also cut back to once a month that lets the creative juices ferment. Lately I’m thinking 50 word stories, that’s the ticket.
How Do You Write 100 Word Stories #16
Many folk have given up all hope of getting a straight answer and have gone off to bed, but one small child in New Jersey in crude crayon letters mistakenly sent to Santa asked how do you tom write a 100 word story.
I write my stories on the beach in Santa Cruz. Off the 41st Ave cliffs near the point where the teens surfer in black wet suits dodge the sea lions and rocks. They yell words of encouragement as I scrawl words in the sand with a stick. Only the gulls see my stories their criticism falls often.
How Do You Write 100 Word Stories #15
Many folk have named their new borns how do you tom write a 100 word story
Words how passé. Movement that is the truest of representation. A hand to the forehead. a twirling of the mustache. A finger raised in dedication to saving Nell who struggles against the rough bounds that bind her to the cold steel of a most post modern deconstructionist fate. And the state of the Villain is he not more righteous vital in his expectance of his dharma, to willing be the anti-hero. Surrender your pen. Join the dance of life.
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