From Chuck Palahniuk, Consider This: Moments in my writing life after which everything was different (Hachette 2020):

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Jim Mercurio recently wrote a book, The Craft of Scene Writing: Beat by Beat to a Better Script, that I've been meaning to plug here for years, but haven't yet got around to re-reading the book to write the review. It's a book worth re-reading, but I decided to wait until the Audible audiobook was on sale.

Yesterday I checked its price, and it's now--$0!

(For mathematicians: That's $0, not $1.)

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[ADDED MARCH 11 2023: I wish I hadn't posted this. I posted it because I liked his take on redemption; but the lead-up to it, in which he accuses Americans of loving "pain porn", is both dumb and hypocritical. After cutting out the dumb part, there isn't enough good stuff left to be worth reading.]

From Consider This: Moments in my writing life after which everything was different (Hachette 2020):

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The Puzzle of Spartan Excellence

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... when you remember ponies have just one toe on each foot.

All Teeth by Regidar is a free-verse, funky-format poem-story inspired by a cover, full of angst and reverb, by one of those suicidal goth bands that have been breeding like flies in America for decades now. I like Regidar's story better than its source material, as story and as poetry.

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There's a consensus in the media that the election results so far show that, if the Republicans fail to win control of the Senate, it can be blamed on Trump-endorsed candidates winning primaries and losing the general election. (See some quantitative reporting here.) I'm not quite ready to say I told you so, partly

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Review: Ich Steh' Mit Einem Huf Im Grabe (I Stand with One Hoof in the Grave, the title of a Bach cantata)

by axxuy
May 2021, 1,345 words
Tragic Octa-scratch, but with Vinyl as a background pony

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Praising Sentences for Being Confusing is Bad

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From the comments audio track on The Last Unicorn movie DVD, by (in order of the audio equivalent of "appearance"):

• Connor Cochrane (Peter's business manager at the time)
• Peter S. Beagle (author of the book and screenwriter for the movie)
• Michael Chase Walker (associate producer of The Last Unicorn movie)
• Terry Kempton (from Connor's Last Unicorn marketing team, I think)

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