I know the Greeks told us the sirens were ugly, but dang.
To paraphrase the great sci-fi writer Stephen King: Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your heart, kill your darlings. Translation: stay on point and mercilessly avoid side stories and anecdotes. With much respect for Mr. King, The History of Man Series is precisely that, a great deal about all those little darlings, a style of writing termed “jumping off.”
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“The great sci-fi writer Stephen King.” Engenders so much trust in the author’s judgment, don’t you think?
The Tribesmen of Juno: The Survivors: Book Three
When you forgot to put the human figure in the foreground, and it’s five minutes to deadline and you can’t be bothered with light sources.