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Happy Birthday Samantha Morgan

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Sam: Our marriage is strong, we can get through anything together.
Jason: Yeah, yeah, together.
Sam: Yes, Jason, together. You’re my husband. I want to raise this baby with you and be a family like we always planned. Yes, we can do this together.
Jason: How can we be in this together when you’ve kept me in the dark? 

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I Write Like…

I write like Jane Austen, Gertrude Stein, Cory Doctorow, James Joyce, Stephenie Meyer, Stephen King, Raymond Chandler, Dan Brown, Anne Rice, J.D. Salinger, Mario Puzo…

Just had my writing analyzed at I Write Like. They analyze your word choice and writing style to determine which famous authors your writing most resembles.

I wanted the most accurate read possible, so I analyzed each and every chapter of my stories to date. Depending on the genre, these were the authors I hit on…

Love Endures All Things completed (romance/crime/drama): Jane Austen, Gertrude Stein, Cory Doctorow, James Joyce, David Foster Wallace, Anne Rice, Raymond Chandler and Robert Louis Stevenson

The Replacement Killers completed (action/crime/drama) [fanfic adaptation]: Dan Brown, William Gibson, Cory Doctorow, Gertrude Stein and James Joyce

Reciprocity in progress (action/crime/drama): James Joyce, David Foster Wallace and Gertrude Stein

Hope For The Holidays in progress (drama/crime/thriller): Stephen King, Mario Puzo, J.D. Salinger, William Gibson and Gertrude Stein

Starts With Goodbye in progress (drama/romance): Jane Austen, Gertrude Stein, Stephenie Meyer, Cory Doctorow

I noticed authors I resemble most frequently are also considered to use a style known as “stream of consciousness” where the authors also exhibited Normal Motor Automatism - a phenomenon hypothesized to occur in people when their attention is divided between two simultaneous intelligent activities, like writing and speaking. I know Gertrude Stein, James Joyce and David Foster Wallace are writers that wrote this way. I wish I had more examples. I’m not sure what it means exactly or if it’s really a thing to strive for or try to overcome? lol

I also wonder if Stephen King’s work was analyzed chapter by chapter, would it say he writes like Stephen King every chapter?

Adverbs, like the passive voice, seem to have been created with the timid writer in mind. With the passive voice, the writer usually expresses fear of not being taken seriously; it is the voice of little boys wearing shoepolish mustaches and little girls clumping around in Mommy’s high heels. With adverbs, the writer usually tells us he or she is afraid he/she isn’t expressing himself/herself clearly, that he or she is not getting the point or the picture across.

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Someone out there is now accusing me of being tiresome and anal-retentive. I deny it. I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops. To put it another way, they’re like dandelions. If you have one on your lawn, it looks pretty and unique. If you fail to root it out, however, you find five the next day … fifty the day after that … and then, my brothers and sisters, your lawn is totally, completely, and profligately covered with dandelions. By then you see them for the weeds they really are, but by then it’s—GASP!!—too late.

— Stephen King, On Writing (via iwl)

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he should avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every sentence tell.

— The Elements of Style, Rule 17 (via iwl)

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was ‘thank you’ that would suffice.

— Meister Eckhart

Ohhhh, a turkey sat on the backyard fence while he sang his sad sad tuuuune.

Thanksgiving Day is coming Gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble and I know I’ll be eaten soo-oo-oon,

Gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble I don’t like Thanksgiving Daaaaay.

Gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble I would like to run away-ay-ay.

We gather together to ask the Lord’s blessing;
He chastens and hastens His will to make known.
The wicked oppressing now cease from distressing.
Sing praises to His Name; He forgets not His own.

Beside us to guide us, our God with us joining,
Ordaining, maintaining His kingdom divine;
So from the beginning the fight we were winning;
Thou, Lord, were at our side, all glory be Thine!

We all do extol Thee, Thou Leader triumphant,
And pray that Thou still our Defender will be.
Let Thy congregation escape tribulation;
Thy Name be ever praised! O Lord, make us free!

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I love you.. but I need some time

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Sam McCall Morgan’s wardrobe…

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“If I just lay here, would you lie with me and just forget the world?”

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