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the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Haliburton highlands, 2005.07.09

Ah, nothing like bobbing naked in your own private stretch of stream. I've had great luck with the weather while up here, I've barely even seen a cloudy patch let alone any jeans-and-sweater weather....

rand()m quote

Remove everything that has no relevance to the story. If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there.

—Anton Chekhov