Tips: Villains

On vacation.

Images that Inspire

RIP Rutger Hauer

 Few actors have inspired me as much as Rutger Hauer. Blade Runner, The Blood of Heroes, and Ladyhawk were just the beginning. I own so many of his movies I can't even count them off in my head. I may have to watch Hobo with a Shotgun again tonight. Or maybe Split Second, where he drank a lot of coffee....

 RIP, sir. Thanks for all the entertainment and inspiration you have brought into my life.

The Bird Feeder Battle Continues!

--The motion sensor sprinkler is amazing. Squirrels and raccoons!

The Battle has Begun: Squirrels vs Slinky

--So far... I am winning!

It's 101 Degrees out today!

Trailer: PICARD

--Looking better and better...

Authors Need to Hear This...

--Always play like the Underdog...

Images that Inspire

Quotes of the Week

Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
—Arthur Mille

You can't control the success or failure of a thing you work on. You can only control the thing you work on.
—Lin-Manuel Miranda

Write about only three things: what you love, what you hate, and what you’re deeply conflicted about.
—Marlon James

Failure can be your strongest ally as a writer. You go forth wiser, learning from your mistakes.
—Judith Briles

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.
—Khaled Hosseini

A writer is a writer because, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing.
—Junot Diaz

One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment.
—Hart Crane

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
—Ernest Hemingway

Tuesday Tips: A handy tool

Bail Returns

The Secret to Some Guys Productivity

--I totally agree with the concept of 80%...

What are you Watching?

This week I have been watching STRANGER THINGS on Netflix.

I love this show.

I don't know how I managed but I have restricted myself to only one episode a day. The other two seasons I sucked them down in a single day.

I actually think Season 3 is the best of all.

--No Spoilers. Just go watch it!

Art that Inspires

Quotes of the Day

Be willing and unafraid to write badly, because often the bad stuff...forms a base on which to build something better.
—Jennifer Egan

Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in the universe: write to please yourself.
—Harlan Ellison

Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion.
—Anne Rice

Dream dreams, then write them. Aye, but live them first.
—Samuel Eliot Morison

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
—Leonard Cohen

To write well, one must utterly abandon oneself to it. You cannot keep secrets...you must spill your heart out on paper.
—Carla Iacovetti

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it.
—E.M. Forster

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
—Jack London

Everybody is a Genius. But If You Judge a Fish by Its Ability to Climb a Tree, It Will Live Its Whole Life Believing that It is Stupid.
—Albert Einstein

Write hard and clear about what hurts.
—Ernest Hemingway

We all have time machines, don't we, those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward are dreams.
—H.G. Wells

Ideas

Video: Ayame

Images that Inspire: Eclipse

Happy July 4th!