The mark of good writing

The mark of good writing is that you are angry at the characters for the decisions they make, not the writers for having the characters make those decisions.

--justshowerthoughts

The mark of a good character is that the writers are angry at the characters for the decisions they make, not the characters for having the characters make those decisions.

I want to talk about the nature of morality, the nature of choices, the nature of being human.

We live in a world in which evil is being glorified and heroes are dead.

Good are being ridiculed and ridiculed as they attempt to keep the truth, the self-evident, the known, and the trivial.

Whose truth is it? The truth of the fictional heroes from which our






So when the vampire has sent Bela and Vriska back into their coffins after breaking their vows to their spouses, you're furious. You believe that Bela and Vriska should have been thrown in with everybody else; if they weren't, the consequences would have been dire, and they'd still be married. But the note's not delivered to them; it was addressed to you. In fact, the bloodthirsty author had saved your life, which means it was addressed to you by someone else, and so you will only have one person to blame for this.









The funny thing is I felt the same way about the New York Jets fans. That's the mark of a big fat cockroach. They are a class of cockroaches, those, that even the footnotes will use as an example of ridiculous New York Jets fan behavior. The pass interference call was way overcooked in the history of how the NFL should be officiated. But again I'm not saying the referee gave it his all. That's why I'm sure the NFL got their reason for all the pass interference calls in favor of that point of view.

Funny thing is






Write what you know.

That doesn't mean have to like everyone, or be as good a writer as your friend/guest. But that means being honest and dealing with things you know, knowing how to put in words what you don't know and getting a point across in a direct, powerful and succinct way. Don't overwhelm yourself. Don't leave yourself waiting on opinions, requests, comments or opinions. Write.

Ask yourself, have you written something that you wished you had written a little earlier? Well, I'm sorry, but not only do you have that awful