Profile

I'm Preocts.

• Most of my work here is learning, exploration, and refinement of patterns
• I write fantasy adventure short stories
• On the weekends I play Minecraft
• Yes, that is an egg wearing a leather jacket

Noteable quotables:

My pain may be the source of somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.

- Charlie Chaplin

The enemy's gate is down.

- Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card

Write down everything that happens in the story, and then in your second draft make it look like you knew what you were doing all along.

- Neil Gaiman

The most dangerous phrase in language is "We've always done it this way."

- Rear Admiral Grace M. Hopper

You get what everyone gets - you get a lifetime.

- Sandman, Neil Gaiman

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

- Dune, Frank Herbert

FYI man, alright. You could sit at home, and do like absolutely nothing, and your name goes through like 17 computers a day. 1984? Yeah right, man. That's a typo. Orwell is here now. He's livin' large. We have no names, man. No names. We are nameless!

- Cereal Killer, Hackers