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the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2017.08.03

We're going on vacation and my fourth sinus infection of the year just keeps getting worse. It's always something! But, it's the vacation - the only one I'll take this year - that we'll remember, not that ol' dad was his usual run-down self.

Three reasons to be thankful:

  1. It's not like I'm in a hospital.
  2. It's not a once-in-a-lifetime trip, just a jaunt up to cottage country.
  3. If I get worse, I won't even need travel insurance.

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