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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