Fate is a wheel that turns without our hand
Arithmetic is the death of story.
Nothing was truly unbearable if you had something to read.
Just start the sentence. . . and see what happens. This is how we write.
That's the hard work of writing. The imagining.
You might ask yourself why you want to surprise your readers in the first place. A surprise ending is sort of like a surprise party. Probably some people, somewhere, enjoy having friends and trusted colleagues lunge at them in the sudden blinding light of their own living room, but I don't think most of us do.
Dialogue is generally the worst choice for exposition. When you're writing lines you need to focus on the way people actually talk. And when we talk to each other we never actually explain our terms. We don't say 'Sweetheart, would you pass me the sugar bowl, which we picked up for a song at that antique stall in Munich. '
I never start with what lots of people think of as a subject or a theme. They're school words, not art words. So, writing essays busts my arse because the art is in addressing the subject. I find it really difficult and monstrously time-consuming. In an essay I need to employ my imagination but it's indentured in a way it's not when I'm free to make everything up.
All your strength in is your union. All your danger is in discord. Therefore be at peace henceforward, And as brothers live together.
If you are not moving closer to what you want in sales (or in life), you probably aren't doing enough asking.
What do you know what goes on inside a man's mind? Outside he may look like a gentleman, but inside ' e may 'ave the 'ankering for murder.