“Who cares if she can kiss? She can see through the clouds.”
“You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you.”
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John Green-athon: Paper Towns
“The town was paper, but the memories were not.”
“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
“If people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”
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The Start of a Small Side-Project
When it comes to inspiration with your writing, it’s a common piece of advice that you should be an avid reader to be an effective writer. Whilst I think this is generally true, I want to add the caveat that this advice should be taken with the understanding that it must be personalized. It’s no […]
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Getting All Meta
A significant chunk of my university dissertation was dedicated to what was, essentially, me gushing about my favourite anime. Specifically, the character arc of my favourite character in my favourite anime. I bring this up for two reasons – firstly, it’s a bit of a flex. How much joy is there in any university that […]
Because the process of writing, editing, pitching, and publishing a novel is an arduously long one, with various unexpected plot developments (mostly in real life, but also in the drafting process), it often occurs to me that it might be a while before anyone who either regularly follows or occasionally sights upon this blog might […]
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The Fingerprints of Creators
The late Terry Pratchett (a creator whom I need to read more of) once made the case that to capture the more evident features as a species, anthropologists were wrong to designate us as Homo sapiens, the wise man. “In reality,” he said, “We are Pan narrans, the storytelling chimpanzee.” In essence, I’m tempted to […]
This title is of course as blunt as anything, but I feel it’s important to get that out of the way before I elaborate. To be more accurate and nuanced, there’s no secret to always guaranteeing productivity even when you try, often because if procrastinating is your natural default, you have to commit your mental […]
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