I thought again how odd it was to be on formal terms with someone you had once permitted to lick your ears.
Josh LanyonI want people to react to my work, to think, to question, to challenge, to cry and laugh and feel.
Josh LanyonAnd I thought maybe I didn't need to worry about my heart anymore because it had stopped beating a couple of seconds earlier, and I was still sitting there living and breathing-though admittedly I wasn't feeling much of anything.
Josh LanyonHe said you were on the scene when that Laurel Canyon homicide went down.โ โIโm lucky that way,โ I said. โSo are you two square again?โ I halted, mid-ripping open the cookies, and stared at him. โWell, heโs pretty square,โ I said. โIโm just a rectangular guy.โ With latent triangular tendencies.
Josh LanyonI know you've all heard the advice, "Show, don't tell." The best writers don't tell you, and quite frankly they don't just show you -- they make you feel it, live it, taste it, touch it. Storytelling is about being in the moment with the characters.
Josh LanyonI gave a helpless laugh. โDamned if I know. I thinkโฆwe seem to have reached impasse. I feel betrayed by your friendship with Verlane. I realize thatโs not logical. I realize that if Iโd made the mistakes Verlane has made, Iโd want my friends to stand by me, hope that someone would help me when the time came. I justโฆโ โWhat?โ I met his eyes. โI just need to come first for someone, Guy.
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