"People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.
For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.” - Mother Teresa

Wednesday

Stories

 "We are all stories in the end."   - Stephen Moffet

"In the end, we'll all become stories."  -  Margaret Atwood 

"When we die we turn into stories. And every time someone tells one of those stories, it’s like we’re still here for them. We’re all stories in the end." - character Olivia Crain, The Haunting of Hill House.

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Vonnegut's 8 rules of Writing

   Putting this here so I know where to find it later.  

8 Rules for Writing - Kurt Vonnegut 
  • Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted. 
  • Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.  Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water. 
  • Every sentence must do one of two things—reveal character or advance the action. 
  • Start as close to the end as possible. 
  • Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them-in order that the reader may see what they are made of. 
  • Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia. 
  • Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To hell with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.
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