Smoke and Mirrors: Archive

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Mar 31st

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The Act of Creation

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible. ~Vladimir Nabakov Creating a story is a curious process. It often begins as nothing more than a vague feeling, a certain atmosphere, a memory, the sense of a long-forgotten dream. Anything can spark it: a photograph, a house, a song, even a smell. ...

Mar 30th

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Mar 30th

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bella-luce-deactivated20120130 asked: what you wrote on my post was beautiful<3 I love every word.

Mar 28th

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“The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world,...”

– Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night (via bookoasis)

Mar 24th

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literarylovers: “You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn’t care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can’t be a way of life - the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it.” — Doris Lessing

Mar 24th

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Revisiting some advice from my favourite English teacher (written in red ink on my grade 12 short fiction homework): “Anne, your style is too good to waste on this romantic twaddle.”

Mar 23rd

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