Hi! Welcome to Chapter 23.
Become evil. Rule the world. Maybe drink tea first and sit down for a bit.
“The normal is that which nobody quite is. If you listen to seemingly dull people very closely, you'll see that they're all mad in different and interesting ways, and are merely struggling to hide it.”
― Robert Anton Wilson, Masks of the Illuminati
I find social media to be a soul-sucking void of meaningless affirmation. Sorry, wrong meeting.
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This month, Life is a Shitty First Draft — You Only Get Rewrites if You’re Buddhist. Personal notes on how to live with and write through depression.
I know I’m stubborn, single-minded, and obsessive. But those are all traits of great writers… And serial killers.
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