Category: Notes
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When you look at the faces on your morning commute
Some days everyone looks like someone else you know and some days nobody looks like anyone and some days each person looks exactly like themselves.
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This is why I love Steinbeck
From The Grapes of Wrath: The tenant pondered. “Funny thing how it is. If a man owns a little property, that property is him, it’s part of him, and it’s like him. If he owns property only so he can walk on it and handle it and be sad when it isn’t doing well, and…
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Dear Movie Trailer Makers of America
A trailer should not just be a shorter version of a movie. If you put the entire plot, with all its twists and turns, into the trailer, it makes me feel like I’ve already seen the whole thing. Then I don’t go pay to watch the movie, because I kind of already have. See what…
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A word on world-building
Can I come clean on something? I unabashedly read over people’s shoulders on the Metro. If I am within five feet of you, and can see your screen or page, I’m not just glancing at the title, I’m waiting for you to turn the page so I can find out what happens next to Captain…