Top ten cautionary lessons to be learned from Mr. Lovecraft:<\/p>\n
1. Don’t eat the cheap canned stuff.<\/p>\n
2. Don’t choose a day-job that’s too similar to your creative work.<\/p>\n
3. If you must work for idiots, at least get the payments up front.<\/p>\n
4. Writing faux-antique poetry may not be the most certain route to fame and influence.<\/p>\n
5. Don’t let the wife give up her day-job as soon as you’re married.<\/p>\n
6. Candy bars are not a breakfast.<\/p>\n
7. Keep carbon copies of all letters.<\/p>\n
8. Don’t give your family’s money to an uncle to invest in a ‘sure-fire’ scheme.<\/p>\n
9. When naming a cat, stick to traditional names like “Fluffy”.<\/p>\n
10. Don’t correlate the contents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Top ten cautionary lessons to be learned from Mr. Lovecraft: 1. Don’t eat the cheap canned stuff. 2. Don’t choose …<\/p>\n