when I was 14 I worked in a grocery store and one day I got to bag Stephen King’s groceries and of course, being the little horror fiction nerd I am I was completely starstruck
I think he thought I was gonna ask for an autograph because I was not even lowkey staring I was full on moon-faced and bouncing and he kept looking over at me hesitantly like aw jeez kid fuck off
anyways I finally managed to squeak out that I was a huge fan and asked for advice on writing, “how do I write as well as you do?” in my horrible thick German accent and broken ass English and he gave me the best writing advice I have ever received
“shit kid, stop worrying about how other people do it and just write your story”
14 years later my wife and I nearly hit him with our car because he was jaywalking
If you live in Austin, Texas or it’s surrounding areas please do not open any packages that you are not expecting. Do not even touch them.
If you did not order anything and nobody else did. Or if the package seems to be odd. Call your local police department and report that there is a unidentified package at your home and ask for assistance with it.
There have been 3 package bombings in Austin so far. One on March 3rd and two of them today(3/12/18). There are 3 reported deaths and one injury. These bombs are detonated via movement and opening and were believed to be placed at night.
Due to the fact that all 3 houses that were targeted were people of color (first two victims were black and the third was latinx) it is possible that this could be the results of a hate crime, however the reasons and culprits have not yet been found.
i literally forgot until just now that when i was 13 i tried to write a novel about a 13 year old girl version of indiana jones. she had blue hair and a robot arm and a ghost butler. she did extreme sports. i didn’t want her to be a mary sue so she got hurt and cried all the time while saving the world. her ghost butler was in love with her. it was a very inappropriate relationship because she was much too young but i was 13 so these things did not occur to me. she lived in a tree. oh my god. why do i remember this in such vivid detail. i have long since deleted the files but i can vividly recall the opening scene because i went over it in my head so many times. it has been over a decade.
i can practically guarantee that at some point she skateboarded down a pyramid
look just know that if i rewrite this it will be all your fault and also i am keeping the robot pig and the ghost butler is going to be another teenage girl who is just really into butlering and being dead
