Sometimes you read something that expresses everything you are feeling at the moment about a certain subject.
From Suzy, Led Zeppelin, and Me, by Martin Millar:
“I’d like to buy all these Buffy dolls and play with them. I’ll have time on my hands soon, I’ve almost finished the Led Zeppelin book. I’m at the ‘nice and big’ stage.”
“What’s the ‘nice and big’ stage?”
“I go through the text making sure I haven’t used any long words. If I find any fancy adjectives have crept in I replace them with small words like ‘nice’ and ‘big.’ I’ve liked those words ever since I was told not to use them in English class at school.”
If you haven’t read any Martin Millar and you are a writer (aspiring or otherwise), then please, as soon as possible, buy and consume all his stuff. Even if you are not into alcoholic fairies, lonely anorexic werewolves or legendary rock bands. Trust me.
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Ah! LONELY WEREWOLF GIRL. I’ve been meaning to read that one. Someone in my small WWW circle did a review and I thought, *hunh, should read that one* and then something shiny distracted me.
Adding it now…