On luck

The story ideas are like blood cells: they come to life until you die.

Caution: if you pull my leg and I pull yours, both of us won’t be able to walk.

A very faithful adaptation. The actors are practically 19th century Russians. Pierre Bezukhov is an earnest puppy walking on his hind legs.

You have to realize that the usage of the second pronoun in creative writing is overrated by the factor of 2.

My twin granddaughters, 5 months old now (but adjusted to 3 since they were born prematurely), is the most attentive audience I have ever had.  They are staring at me with starry-eyed admiration and even forget to blink I have already exhausted my considerable arsenal of Russian poetry I know by heart, the English-language stories…

I don’t give up submitting to the same #litmag, even after a dozen rejections. I tried to give up once, but I gave up on giving up.