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where the wild things are

ethaney:

Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.

-maurice sendak

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Writing survey

Strike through the ones you’ve done.

My total: 54/80

I have written…

  1. a finished novel
  2. a finished novella
  3. part of a novel
  4. part of a novella
  5. a short story
  6. fantasy
  7. sci-fi
  8. romance
  9. erotica
  10. historical fiction
  11. literary fiction
  12. horror
  13. a myth or fable
  14. an autobiography
  15. a biography
  16. a memoir
  17. a magazine article
  18. a newspaper article
  19. a children’s story or book
  20. western
  21. experimental fiction
  22. travel literature
  23. a mystery
  24. a press release
  25. a journal or diary
  26. a how-to guide
  27. a movie screenplay
  28. a short film screenplay
  29. a TV screenplay
  30. a blog article
  31. technical writing
  32. advertising copy
  33. a business proposal
  34. a script for a graphic novel
  35. a greeting card
  36. an essay for school
  37. an essay for myself
  38. a monologue
  39. a monologue that I performed
  40. a free verse poem
  41. a haiku
  42. a ballad
  43. a limerick
  44. a sonnet
  45. while drunk
  46. while drinking
  47. while high
  48. while smoking
  49. while eating
  50. while having sex
  51. while falling asleep
  52. with one other person
  53. with a team of people
  54. with my significant other
  55. for more than five hours straight
  56. to distract myself
  57. something that made me laugh
  58. something that made me cry
  59. something I couldn’t bring myself to keep
  60. something I sent to a friend
  61. something I sent to an enemy
  62. while in class
  63. while at work
  64. during a test
  65. on the bus
  66. in the car
  67. in the hospital
  68. in a waiting room
  69. while watching a movie
  70. while watching porn
  71. while listening to music
  72. something treasonous
  73. something controversial
  74. something I consider nearly perfect
  75. something that has been quoted
  76. something that has been quoted by a stranger
  77. something that has been published
  78. something I was paid to publish
  79. for money
  80. for sex
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the thing that bothers me about your brand of arrogance

(besides the fact that you can’t back it up)

is that you think that just because you say it ironically

you’ve got moral high ground on people who say it seriously

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we do not live in little villages anymore

where the sum total of your life is everyone’s business

so no, don’t ask me about that