Great story!

In my high school English class, everyone had to write papers on famous authors. My friend and I instead did a video project comparing Ray Bradbury to Stephen King, and my contribution was a VERY rough short based on a Bradbury's "The Emissary."

I spent some time crushed against a barricade watching them on their first tour open for Def Leppard. Such an amazing band.

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This was great!

I try to time breaks to the finishing of drafts in order to come back to it with fresh eyes. Screenwriting is different than novels though. If there's no danger in losing momentum after 10 chapters, then writing a short story as a palate cleanser sounds like fun!

Dying was maybe too hard. "Contracting" and "driven by fear" would be more accurate. Yes, there are healthy signs in publishing, of the three it feels like the most resilient space right now.

Yep. Almost everything is impossible to sell. And then someone sells one and I'm like "see?" And then they're like, well now we REALLY can't sell it.