(extract) “If you want your fiction to cut deep, study the Forlorn Hope. It’s not the gore that makes it agonizing – it’s the humanity.”

If you're a writer and you ever hesitated about making your story “too weird”… shame on you. The world already is too weird. Lean in.

If death is the last note in a symphony, The Purge is the silence after the music stops – but before the applause, before the lights come up, before anyone breathes. It’s not drama. It’s absence.

The next time you're stuck for a plot, remember the absurdity of it all. The mistakes, the greed, the human error...