Robusto

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I want patience and I want it now.

Also, I find that nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

Laziness is what gets me out of bed in the morning.

正宗で大根を切る。

言い出しっぺ。

Some of the smartest things people have ever said:

No language makes perfect sense. — John McWhorter

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering. — Carl Jung

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. — George Santayana

Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do. — Savielly Tartakower

One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision — Bertrand Russell

Every good thing that happens in your life is a gift. — Yours Truly

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Jun 28	awarded	Popular Question
Jun 20	awarded	Talkative
Apr 11	awarded	Good Answer
Apr 10	comment	How can I catch more errors when I proofread? +1: This is the foolproof way to proofread. If you read it out loud, every mistake is apparent. The only quibble I have is that frequently you find more to edit than you imagine, and so have to read the whole thing over again.
Jan 28	awarded	Yearling
Dec 15	comment	Dealing with personal trauma in writing Do you mean "mythos" (singular) or "myths" (plural)? There is a difference.
Nov 26	revised	What should I know to better decide which of my names to conceal/abbreviate/elaborate/modify/invent for signing my writing? Title needed a preposition
Nov 9	comment	Unpunctuation: bug or feature? @bwkaplan: If the Czarina was writing in Russian, there wouldn't have been a copula anyway.
Oct 9	comment	Are fantasy books expected to be trilogies? And, in the case of George R. R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire series, way too long.
Sep 19	comment	Any experience with Serenity Editor software? @StevenDrennon: True, to a point. The problem is all the false positives you find using such software. Do you really need it to flag all instances of ain't, for example? It takes too much brainpower to deal with the mechanics of imperfect software, which is why I always turn off the grammar checker in MS Word. I don't need someone's crummy heuristics forcing me to justify my writing style. My proofreading method is much simpler and way more effective: I read all my serious writing aloud before I consider it complete.
Sep 19	answered	Any experience with Serenity Editor software?
Sep 17	comment	Is there a rule of thumb about the number of pages a work of fiction should have? 50K is a very short novel. I've been told that most novels are over 80K words at least.
Sep 10	comment	What to do if I can't meet my chapter word count? +1: Any piece of writing is organic, and its length should be dictated by the necessities of plot, character, and action.
Aug 29	comment	If in real life the antagonist is often oneself, shouldn't it work in a full length novel? I disagree about Remains of the Day. Miss Kenton certainly is an antagonist. She struggles to pull him out from behind his facade. The irony is that, in defeating her, he defeats himself. A brilliant book, by the way.
Aug 26	comment	How could my friend publish his Steve Jobs biography? And OP's friend should get his team of lawyers ready for the inevitable lawsuits.
Aug 22	answered	Is it possible to figure out the ROI of an MFA?
Aug 18	comment	Submitting a novel for publication: do editors still expect Courier font? Courier doesn't italicize well. Is it the convention to underline instead of italicize in manuscripts?
Aug 10	awarded	Nice Answer
Aug 8	comment	Tips for adding more personality to characters? If your characters never surprise you, they will never surprise anyone else. Give them the freedom to be human, to act and speak of their own accord rather than rigidly adhere to the skeleton of a plot outline.
Aug 6	awarded	Nice Answer