Icaruss

I like characters who want to be good people but can't, because they're human beings.

It makes me sad that people have silly opinions.

This thread makes me sad.

I would write about perfect characters only they don't really exist.

It'd be OK if it wasn't for the silly, pre-packed twist at the end. 6/10. "Back Into The Gray" Two small time cons, ex-junkies, get a call from an uncle ...

My mind, I guess. I don't-- I mean, is that a sense? I don't know. Maybe, but... Like-- Because of all the stuff I... You know. I mean, things I ...

Sounds like a superhero. Or maybe a horror story about some kind of monster who howls. It's an OK enough title. "Back Into The Gray."

I'm writing a story about a weekend full of drugs and violence. "Horses," by Patti Smith seems like the appropiate soundtrack.

Trainspotting: Heroin addicts in Scotland try to quit the habit, fail miserably, try again.

Quentin Tarantino: meandering conversations, hard-boiled criminals talking like real people. Irvine Welsh: multiple perspectives, people narrating like they're talking to you. Ernest Hemingway: really

You know when you're writing a lot? And you're excited? And you write like fifty pages in a day? And you're sweating and typing like crazy and tackling every plot ...

I just choose the most mundane names possible. Anything exotic sounds exotic. When has anybody ever met anybody named Avellina or Xerxes? Unless I wanna make a point (like people ...

"I think we have this game already," Eddy sighed, calmly. No, seriously, we do.

One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. It was the very first book to EVER inspire a physical reaction from me--and not nausea. As I read the ending, ...

Trainspotting and Glue, by Irvine Welsh. The Time of the Hero (La Ciudad y los Perros), by Mario Vargas Llosa.