I just used this on my current short story. You’re writing along. Things are going well. Then, they’re not going well. You’re stuck. Don’t panic. Don’t take the day off to sulk aka “Think about it.” Open a new documents. Click on the Numbering thingee (each Enter drops in the…

Every family has its dumb shit that later turns out to be significant, that is an indicator of deeper issues, and that’s the case with mine. I don’t recommend bringing up kids in the kind of envirornment I was brought up in. I’m not complaining. There are people I’ve known…

“Did you hear Evan was in the hospital.” I wondered if my memory was getting worse by the second. Then she told me Evan’s full name. For a few years, everyone we knew assumed they’d just get married one day. …

Date: August 1, 2022Author: John Stephen Walsh — Edit So many bloggers write to hand out advice. Nothing wrong with that as long as we realize they are no more expert in ‘life advice’ than anyone else. An expert in medicine can give medical advice, a carpenter can give woodworking…

Hail Biden, the blue-collar, military veteran, kind, smart insider while still being one of The Little People, who rescued us from the Cult of Orange Man. How could we be so lucky as to be worthy of a regular down-to-Earth Normal guy, who cares for the downtrodden and the poor…

“(Hitler)used it as a pretext to claim that Communists were plotting against the German government, and induced President Paul von Hindenburg to issue the Reichstag Fire Decree suspending civil liberties, and pursue a “ruthless confrontation” with the Communists.[1] This made the fire pivotal in the establishment of Nazi Germany.” …

Of course rightwingers lie, too. Everyone lies. I just don’t feel like talking about those other folks today. But you can handle it. You’re a grownup. Not like Those People. Right? # You talk about diversity, but you hate on everyone who doesn’t think like you. “Just because I’m for…

Alejandro Jodorowsky directed, wrote, produced, co-scored, co-edited, STARRED, AND worked on the sets and costumes for THE HOLY MOUNTAIN. Take THAT, ghost of Orson Welles! Jodorowsky has an odd kind of fame now, known by many as the guy who planned a movie of DUNE in the seventies but evil…

“There were 40 Western series, and I went from one to the other. I started out playing the third bad guy on a horse and worked my way up to the №1 bad guy,” I liked a bunch of his movies, but for me, Warren Oates will always be the…