Writing Rules: Tropes are bad. Me: right... Writing Rules: ok not all the time & you shouldn't write too far outside the tropes the market wants. Me: wait... how do you know- Writing Rules: prologues are bad too. Except if that's where the story starts. Also chapter titles.

Writers, have you ever included something from real life in your fictional works?

It’s not enough, in individual life or in politics, to hate and fight against what is bad. One must, at a more fundamental level, love and promote what is truly good. Without that motivation, the defeat of evils is bound to result merely in their replacement with different evils.

A “suicide pod” was used for the first time yesterday in Switzerland. It's the latest step forward for a barbaric, despair-filled ideology that cloaks itself in the language of "compassion." From @AndrewPetiprin: catholic.com/magazine/online…

Today’s gonna be a good day. I know this because my tea turned out perfect this morning and I didn’t even try to drink it while it could still burn my tongue. Happy Thursday, y’all!