Over the years, people have asked me, “Nick, how do you do it?” OK, actually, nobody has ever asked me that. Still, here are a few important lessons about writing which you won’t find in any class or textbook, which I will graciously share with you:
F. Scott FitzgeRald
GeoRge R.R. MaRtin
H.P. LovecRaft
J.K. Rowling
J.R.R. Tolkien
R. Scott BakkeR
Rick Riordan
R.A. SalvatoRe
TeRRy Goodkind
William ShakespeaRe
Stephen R. King
Apparently, the more R’s the better. Also, it’s good if you can abbreviate your name with a bunch of letters.
2. Great writers have bad hair. The reasoning behind this is simple: great writers are too busy alleviating their sickness to think about their hair. This theorem also works in reverse; people with great hairstyles are bad writers, although there may be an exception for female writers as one of my feminist friends has pointed out.
If you’ve read my bio, this may seem like deja vu, because the same advice appeared there. I have since written an extensive new ending to my bio, which you can (and should) read by clicking the Bio link at the top of this blog. To make room for it, I had to ax this part, but since I hate to waste good material, I decided to recycle it by posting it here.
The Art of Storytelling 
Neil Gaiman. Isaac Asimov. C. S. Lewis. James Joyce. A. A. Milne. Jane Austen. John Keats. James Boswell. John Milton. John Bunyan. Jean de Meung. Plato. Sophocles. Aeschylus. Sappho. Not an R in the lot of them.
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Um, I hope you realize this post was a joke.
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No 'Rs'? Nick Alimonos has a fantastic 'Rs', I'll have you know! I've seen pictures of it, all over the damned Internet, and let me tell you, ..a finer, manlier pair of Spartan hams cannot be found!
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