March 26, 2021
Still chilly and rainy out.
Daily Whip Out:
"Let Me Tell You What I Really Think
of Your Royal Balls"
The older I get the less interested I am in clean cut characters. Always in the right, never a bad deed. Most of us have our days, all of us are torn.
Daily Whip Out: "Little Miss Dichotomy"
Just heard that McMurtry has passed. Working on a pivot for the next issue (June).
“I’m a critic of the myth of the cowboy. I don’t feel that it’s a myth that pertains, and since it’s a part of my heritage I feel it’s a legitimate task to criticize it."
—Larry McMurtry
Better for your protagonist to wear a black hat, preferably Stepped on by a mule and dirty. Grizzled and scarred face, hold doors for a lady but more comfortable consorting with “ soiled doves and gamblers with a ace of spades up their Sleeves .... lives their momma but spits at dogs and pushes obnoxious salesman into horse $hi+ ...
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