Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.
Orson Scott

Comment preview: Ok. First and most valuable lesson you can learn. Learn to say "NO!" to people. You need to get out of the horrible habit of trying to please everyone. You will never please everyone, and cutting your own throat to make people happy never works. So, first ....


Comment preview: As I recall from a documentary I have on VHS about Da Vinci, the two masters had a bit of an argument over the block of marble that would become Michelangelo's David. As magnificent as David turned out, I am curious as to what Leonardo would have created. ....


Comment preview: Summer camp counselor here. One of sweetest kids we had a few years ago had a horrible lisp, and he was really puny. He had also broken his tail bone before camp and had to sit on a doughnut pillow. Let's call him Dwight.   We all sleep in the sam ....


Comment preview: Yeah. The heart wants what the...blah blah blah. I had a horrible habit of falling for girls that I felt needed to be "saved". Even more than I do now. I honestly had huge feelings for her and was with her for 9yrs. To think I could erase the circumstances ....


Comment preview: I had horrible, horrible habits. My boyfriend and I would eat out all the time, and we'd constantly over-indulge. Appetizers, main course, desserts, the whole shebang. I also pretty much, uh, didn't do anything? I'm pretty nerdy, so indoor activities take ....


Comment preview: I was attending boulder high they year the school "bought" the sidewalk out front forcing smokers to go to the creek path behind the school. We realized the folks on the bike path wanted to deal with out shitty smoke as much as we wanted to trudge back the ....


Comment preview: In college, I lived with three other people in a suite- my best friend and I in one room and two other girls in the room next door; we all shared bathroom space, sink space, and living room space. One roommate next door had horrible habits. Her room was al ....


Comment preview: I need to start thinking like you. I have been chewing tobacco since I was 16 when I was playing baseball in high school then it carried over to when I played football in college. Always finding a routine of when to put a lipper in, playing video games, af ....


Comment preview: Spacebase was a kick in the guts to me. I was trying my best to reserve my excitement for what they announced, and be patient, and wait. And then they just said: Eh, fuck it, never mind. The most recent thing they've done that I enjoyed was Brutal Legen ....


Comment preview: Authenticity. We can sniff someone being even the slightest bit fake or manipulative or insincere miles away. If you can show this person that you are authentic and share some of your own intense feelings, this person might open up. We have horrible habits ....


Comment preview: I'm living proof this happens. Found the girl of my dreams, got married, and we both just exploded with weight. Every time she'd say she felt fat, I'd try to comfort her with that same old fatlogic, like, "no baby, I don't want you looking scrawny," and "I ....


Comment preview: i do everything i can to prevent my muscles from getting tired or sore. most importantly, i keep good posture in my lower back. i used to have a horrible habit of hollowing out my back and making myself debilitatingly sore. thankfully i've stopped doing th ....


Comment preview: I really dislike this argument. I see it very often, and I was told the same thing - with, at first, the same reaction... I DO have a calculator with me *almost* all times. I pointed it out to one of my math teachers in uni, and he recognized that for many ....


Comment preview: The problems with smoking weed aren't universal or easy to discuss unfortunately. It has such a range of effects on different users that it's like asking how long it takes to get buff at the gym. No one can say but you. It breaks down into causal and regul ....


Comment preview: My previous boss never really ate lunch. He always just "ate when he was hungry." Which NEVER coincided with the typical 12 o clock or 1 o clock lunch time most of the world eats at. I worked for this guy for 12 years, he knew exactly when I would go to lu ....


Comment preview: The story--- [This not-so-little girl](http://i.imgur.com/OObf1.jpg) was in the process of being potty trained.. but at the time she had this horrible habit of "rolling in it" afterwards.. but she would only do this occasionally. I had just put up a fe ....


Comment preview: (To make it easier for me, I've written this from the point of view of a WBC sympathiser, but not a full member.) Brit: So what's this Westboro Baptist thing all about anyway? American: The Westboro Baptist Church go out to spread God's message of hate aga ....


Comment preview: This sort of behavior really sucks. Two of my friends, we had to sort of mould them into such people. They were cheap bastards to start with: they would drink our booze with reckless abandon, and then ask us to chip in like 3$ for beer when we drank at the ....


Comment preview: I love how the people who say this was an unimpressive play would probably tumble too far into the enemy team, die instantly, ruining their orb walking, condemn someone away before the 2nd bolt, fuck up their clicking and either stop moving or ruin W by mi ....


Comment preview: 10 years so far. Teaching is a fraction of what we do: There's an absurd amount of paperwork, from attendance, to Individualized Education Plans, to formal evaluations, to field trip forms, etc. Behavior problems are always an issue, sometimes big and some ....


Comment preview: Stress. Procrastination, in particular. I don't know if this would qualify as an actual addiction, it's more like an insane urge coupled with a horrible habit, something that I have been trying to change for years, and have so far failed. I have a relative ....


Comment preview: Yeah, actually a lot more of that and some very interesting stories. The most interesting one where I was walking around downtown in my city and a guy starts talking to me. I have a horrible habit of feeling like the scummiest scum for not responding to pe ....


Comment preview: This will get buried, but I think that this should be required reading for people who want to get an apartment with your friends. So my ex boyfriend lives with an apartment full of freaks. Some of them are nice, all are at least a little mentally challenge ....


Comment preview: You lack some basic knowledge of anatomy, light, and form. This would be the first place I would recommend starting. It's a pretty common trend I see among newer artists, especially when it comes to digital, is that they rely on their photoshop and pretty ....


Comment preview: It depends on what you mean by "worst." Hello, wall of text! * A parent pulled strings to get her kid who could not read or write into my advanced HS writing class. The kid was nice and all, but he was definitely the worst student, in the sense that he rea ....