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Top Ten Quotes By My Favorite Writers: Part Deux

5 min readMay 4, 2025

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Hi dee ho y’all! I’m Spyder Darling and you might know me from The Tao of Spyder guides to getting through la vida without going loco. In addition to life lessons, I have also been known to write, among other zings, a pun, lyric and pirate joke or two (a riggin’ friggin’ fifty actually).

Anyway and in any case, as you can see, I am an hombre of mucho interests: movies, fitness, cooking, and writing being among the more socially accepted of them. Which is helpful when deciding what to write about next.

But even me, prolific as I may be, sometimes find myself starring at my laptop keyboard, coffee close by, an Alpha Brain by Onnit slowly kicking in, Tangerine Dream synthesizing away on Pandora, fingers poised, ready to type out a righteous noise and…nada.

It is then that I turn to the wise words of my favorite typists who have come before me, in the hopes that their experience and wisdom will strike a literary reflex in my cerebellum.

And sure enough, it isn’t long before I am typing away back in fine form, letting participles dangle, like red stained sheets out of a honeymoon window, until a brand new story hits the Medium light of day…

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Writer, Rocker, Actor, Coach. Currently living and dining in NYC. Like my stuff? Why not buy me a "coffee" here. Cheers! https://buymeacoffee.com/spyderdarling