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Tips For If You Wake Up Underground, Possibly In A Grave:
1) If your face has room, try to spit. If the spit falls away from your face, you're face down. You need to flip before climbing out of the damp earth
2) Think back: Did you say anything that could have been construed by the Thrice Charmed Lady of the Swamp as an insult?
3) When you surface, look for a tombstone. Is there one? With your name? If so, everything makes sense. If not, then...
4) Spit up mud, prepare vengeance as needed.

good things to name your children

poppin the unexpected
bumbus the regrettable
jéromithy the adequate
drolby the small one
drolbetto the smaller one
hershius rex, the destroyer of abstract notions and ideas

lemme know what you think...

The rest of us can't. Those memories are gone. We stare with blank eyes. 90s kids shake our shoulders and we can't help them. Our pasts are shrouded in fog and their pleas to remember with them are like distant ice cracking on a frozen ocean. Their memories are their own burden to carry. We have left it all behind and we are free.

lifehack: if you say "I'll be right back" as you leave a room, you can say "as the prophecy foretold" when you re-enter

One thing that helps with writing is to realize that your first draft is basically just your outline in prose form. It's not /supposed/ to be good.

Basically a first draft is telling the story to yourself. Then you mold it into something other people can read. To me, it kind of feels like sculpting with clay. But you've gotta put that clay on the table first.