Please join us for the storm tomorrow. Not just to save Martin's show, as amazing as that would be. But if that circle has brought you joy, wonder, laughter or hope, Martin's show would only increase the chance of sharing those things with a new generation.
#SaveStargate
My movie "Paging Mr. Darcy" premieres tomorrow at 8/7 Central on the Hallmark Channel! I'll be throwing a small party with a drinking game. If you want to play along, here are the rules:
@saucymincks My first place on my own was a 1BR in Athens, GA, 5 minutes walk from downtown, the summer of 1999. $315/mo.
A few years later, my partner and I split a 700 sq ft 1BR apt in Brooklyn for $920/month.
Man, those were the days.
Kurt Vonnegut's 8 rules for writing:
1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
4. Every sentence must do one of two things—reveal character or advance the action.
5. Start as close to the end as possible.
6. Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them-in order that the reader may see what they are made of.
7. Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
8. Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To hell with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.