Exercise wherein I edit the first paragraph of Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises to see how many words I can trim, and therefore claim the title for sparse prose https://t.co/hFimTicH84
My 7th annual Veterans’ Month promo begins on Nov 1. I will donate 100% of proceeds to organizations that support #veterans and families. This year it will be @GarySiniseFound & @Op_Homefront. Learn more https://t.co/k3j77JkaDk. Get a copy at https://t.co/6Yu2gwmVFZ. #VeteransDay
I always thought I would make a good recluse.
Official tally for 365 days of quasi-quarantine:
Reading: 43 books
Writing: 854,931 words
-Novels finished: 1 (draft)
-Novels/projects started: 5
-Short stories/essays started: ~30
Duolingo lessons: 110 Latin, 178 Italian
“When you work hard all day with your head and you know you must work again the next day what else can change your ideas and make them run on a different plane like whiskey?
- Ernest Hemingway. In a letter to Ivan Kashkin (as printed in the Dearborn biography)
OLD CASES NEW COLOURS
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This book has everything; old friends, new enemies, murder, art theft, adultery - and a trial at the Old Bailey
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#LISTEN TO THE BRODSKY AFFAIR
"I don’t often listen to thrillers, but this complex sleuthing of artworks and the nasty world of art thefts has enough twists and turns to keep me hooked."
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I get that DM’s can be annoying. But, Mark Twain handprinted his stories and tried to sell them door to door. So did Hemingway. So did Stephen King. Don’t punish people for trying. Hate the game, not the players.