Mark Alvarez

So instead of making horror movies where mental illness is used to motivate killers or exploit subjectivity ("Is it real, or are they crazy?"), let's make horror movies about how horiffic it can be to be mentally ill.

And first I mastered silence. And then only then I made a sound.

Oh and now I write like love, now Tweetledee, now turtledove.

I write like the nerviest nanobots now, best watch out, stiff ka-pow.

What I think my book's called. Mainly.

I love smartphones. It's like having a flashlight in your pocket all the time.

Never have I seen a more appropiate name.

So people are having sex on weeknights now. The watercooler talk must be insane.

Nature is overrated, but birds are impressive.

Sshh ... no one tell Netflix there's other types of horror besides the supernatural.

Bipolar is such a weird disease. Its symptoms are being happy, spending tons of money, wanting to fuck everything in sight, and persistant thoughts of suicide. Apparently, I am bipolar every Christmas holiday.

The next thing on my bucket list is to die in my sleep

Sometimes it feels like 80% of writing is just getting the right transition

The football men take their places on the field tomorrow #FinsUp

Doctors are always like "Your blood pressure's high," or "your cholestoral's bad," never "it's cool that you got a new cat." Thanks anyway.

If your character is dressed kookily, readers will think it's a FUN CHARACTER

Me: Wow, I'm in the greatest mood. My body: Then why don't I flood you with stress hormones for no reason so you can get stuck in fight-or-flight for days? Me: Fu... My body: I win again!

The only real novel-writing advice I have is be sure what tense you want to use early on, because changing the tense in in 80k-word document FORKING HURTS

NO BORING BOOKS