I still catch myself feeling sad about things that don’t matter anymore.

Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut's 8 rules for writing: ⁣ 

1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.⁣ ⁣ 2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.⁣ ⁣ 

3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.⁣ ⁣ 

4. Every sentence must do one of two things—reveal character or advance the action.⁣ ⁣ 

5. Start as close to the end as possible.⁣ ⁣ 

6. 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.⁣ ⁣ 

7. 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.⁣ ⁣ 

8. 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.⁣

"There are old poops who will say that you do not become a grown-up until you have somehow survived, as they have, some famous calamity -- the Great Depression, the Second World War, Vietnam, whatever. Storytellers are responsible for this destructive, not to say suicidal, myth. Again and again in stories, after some terrible mess, the character is able to say at last, 'Today I am a woman. Today I am a man. The end.' When I got home from the Second World War, my Uncle Dan clapped me on the back, and he said, 'You're a man now.' So I killed him. Not really, but I certainly felt like doing it. Dan, that was my bad uncle, who said a male can't be a man unless he'd gone to war. But I had a good uncle, my late Uncle Alex. He was my father's kid brother, a childless graduate of Harvard who was an honest life-insurance salesman in Indianapolis. He was well-read and wise. And his principal complaint about other human beings was that they so seldom noticed it when they were happy. So when we were drinking lemonade under an apple tree in the summer, say, and talking lazily about this and that, almost buzzing like honeybees, Uncle Alex would suddenly interrupt the agreeable blather to exclaim, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.' So I do the same now, and so do my kids and grandkids. And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'"

— Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country (2005)

mother night, kurt vonnegut

from a recent commission! The commissioners husband works in dam maintenance on the great lakes I believe, I was asked to illustrate him and three coworkers into the drop capital, and include lampreys if I was able.

they specifically paid me to create the original, scan, do digital cleanup and print three more copies

might turn this into a print, they gave explicit permission to do so, what do yall think?

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I still catch myself feeling sad about things that don’t matter anymore.

Kurt Vonnegut

A post about missing home and moving on.

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A post about missing home and moving on.

"I love you so much. [...] I know I promised not to say that, but that's a promise I can't help breaking all the time." BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS, KURT VONNEGUT JR.

Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.

Kurt Vonnegut

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Every sentence must do one of two things: reveal character or advance the action.

– Kurt Vonnegut

"You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society."

~ Kurt Vonnegut

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“To practice any art, no matter how well, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.” — Kurt Vonnegut