worlds that aren't there
"Worlds That Aren't There," October 31, 2022 (#304)
title from "Stephen King: Halloween's Answer to Santa Claus" by Bryon Cahill (2005)
The Craft (1996)
Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping by Matthew Salesses (2021)
last line from "The Dreams in the Witch House" by H.P. Lovecraft (1932)
Worlds That Aren't There
Did you just call me an asshole? You did, didn't you?
Our exposure to culture is what makes our advice on dialogue
know what I'm talking about. I'm in touch with the man! Listen to
social consciousness. Perhaps for a white audience the book requires
warranties regarding results or side effects. I can tell you unofficially
readers are often happy to let someone else make it. This also gives
an attitude. I said, "Wrap it up, I'll take it now." Cash. My jukebox
actually encourages writers to think that this is the way life should
feel really intensely...but do you ever stop and wonder where it
didn’t help, what suggestions were useful, what questions they still
hail to the guardians of the watchtowers of the north?
One-syllable words are often more familiar to a broader
bygone aperture tightly and heavily covered with ancient planking.
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The Shining (1981)