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It was nice gnawing you

Dave also included sports, word-games, weather reports (“It’s been pretty dry, but local farmer Harold Davis says if we don’t have at least one good rain in August he will smile and kiss a pig”),recipes, a continuing story (I wrote that), and Dave’s Jokes and Humor, which included nuggets like these:
Stan: “What did the beaver say to the oak tree?”
Jan: “It was nice gnawing you!”

Stephen King. On Writing

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Danny just liked the idea that Room 4, where we did our work, was near the girls’ bathroom. “Someday I’ll just go crazy and hack my way in there, Steve,” he told me on more than one occasion. “Hack, hack, hack.” Once he added, perhaps in an effort to justify himself: “The prettiest girls in school pull up their skirts in there.” This struck me as so fundamentally stupid it might actually be wise, like a Zen koan or an early story by John Updike.

Stephen King. On Writing

my Stephen King On Writing dictionary

high-handed
retool
auteur
It’s a wash
restive
tipple
double time
corny
entranced
fortyish
shirk
fledging
hot under the collar
heathen
slip off the jack
wheelbarrow
ballpark
cuntivore
scug
penile
truckle
roman a clef
shadowbpx
the big cheese
prude
atone
stupidnik
Brownie point
wonky
deign
imbue
cant
plainspun
sidelight
moot
arrogant (cheekbones)
gambol
dime-dreadful
cornpone
galloping (racist)
endpapers
ghoulish
letterhead
circuitous
graf
dust kittens
galumph
bust one's beak at someone
anomie
groundlings
slothful
ship one's oars
bravura
humongous
dweeb
carrel
ouija
humdrum
twofor
addle
snowplow
alky
gimp
purloin
turkey red
stockade
behoove
learn one's chops
pawnshop
manatee
like white on rice
piddle
grand high poobah
valedictorian
salutatorian
donald duck outburst
dub up
slunk out
ramrod
heartfelt
thinclad
to belt
canticle
diction
locust
throe
go bonkers
footwell
garret
get friendly
the mean reds
obstreperous
gourd
jack-shit
burbly
a rash
wraith (By the end of the day she was the girl she’d been before Christmas vacation — a dough-faced and freckle-cheeked wraith, scurrying through the halls with her eyes down and her books clasped to her chest)
downeast
convivial
thunderclap
clout
marshgas
yark
undertow
prop-claw
dratty
drat
draw-tank
peepers ))
mangy
ginger-bread man
condenscension
perish the thought
franklin mint
bummer
crossbar hotel
an in
chagrine
assiduous
cloud nine
riffle
flogg
semblance
swelter
slog
double for
gallumph
swiftie
blacktop
nosh
shy (мимо, рядом)
slip
wheez
tough titty said the kitty

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Submitting stories without first reading the market is like playing darts in a dark room — you might hit the target every now and then, but you don’t deserve to.

Stephen King