Mark Alvarez

a pinprick in a sea of not black but beyond

[Mark Alvarez @markvalvarez]

So instead of making horror movies where mental illness is used to motivate killers or exploit subjectivity ("Is it real, or are they crazy?"), let's make horror movies about how horiffic it can be to be mentally ill.

[Mark Alvarez @markvalvarez]

And first I mastered silence. And then only then I made a sound.

[Mark Alvarez @markvalvarez]

Oh and now I write like love, now Tweetledee, now turtledove.

[Mark Alvarez @markvalvarez]

I write like the nerviest nanobots now, best watch out, stiff ka-pow.

[Mark Alvarez @markvalvarez]

What I think my book's called. Mainly.

[Mark Alvarez @markvalvarez]

I love smartphones. It's like having a flashlight in your pocket all the time.

[Mark Alvarez @markvalvarez]

Never have I seen a more appropiate name.

[Mark Alvarez @markvalvarez]

So people are having sex on weeknights now. The watercooler talk must be insane.

[Mark Alvarez @markvalvarez]

Nature is overrated, but birds are impressive.

[Mark Alvarez @markvalvarez]

Sshh ... no one tell Netflix there's other types of horror besides the supernatural.

[Mark Alvarez @markvalvarez]

Bipolar is such a weird disease. Its symptoms are being happy, spending tons of money, wanting to fuck everything in sight, and persistant thoughts of suicide. Apparently, I am bipolar every Christmas holiday.

[Mark Alvarez @markvalvarez]

The next thing on my bucket list is to die in my sleep

[Mark Alvarez @markvalvarez]

Sometimes it feels like 80% of writing is just getting the right transition

[Mark Alvarez @markvalvarez]

The football men take their places on the field tomorrow #FinsUp

[Mark Alvarez @markvalvarez]

Doctors are always like "Your blood pressure's high," or "your cholestoral's bad," never "it's cool that you got a new cat." Thanks anyway.

[Mark Alvarez @markvalvarez]

If your character is dressed kookily, readers will think it's a FUN CHARACTER

[Mark Alvarez @markvalvarez]

Me: Wow, I'm in the greatest mood.
My body: Then why don't I flood you with stress hormones for no reason so you can get stuck in fight-or-flight for days?
Me: Fu...
My body: I win again!

[Mark Alvarez @markvalvarez]

The only real novel-writing advice I have is be sure what tense you want to use early on, because changing the tense in in 80k-word document FORKING HURTS

[Mark Alvarez @markvalvarez]

NO BORING BOOKS