Tag: writing

Your story, your art, your life

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A quote from Dianna Wynne Jones, author of many, many well-loved books, such as the Howl’s Moving Castle trilogy:

…somewhere, somewhen, someone is going to read your book at a time when such things stick for life. And you have to make it the kind of book that is worth remembering that vividly for that long. You have to make it an experience in its own right.

Reflections On the Magic of Writing by Dianna Wynne Jones

Do it. You know you want to, because you know somewhere, somewhen in your life, someone wrote a story – or told you a story – that stuck with you. That changed you, changed what you wanted to do, changed who and how you wanted to be in your life.

Do it.

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The surprising benefits of gossip – BBC Worklife

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https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20220804-the-surprising-benefits-of-gossip

This article was interesting to me, for a couple of reasons.

First, the possibility that a human need for gossip led to the development of language? Fun (to me, at least)!

Second, after two years and four months of working remotely… what and how does office gossip affect things?

Gossip can be good or bad. In the age of #MeToo, gossip that warns its listeners to “Never be alone with” certain men can save people and companies a lot of trouble!

So, for writers and storytellers, how do you use gossip in your tales?

A bit from a story in progress

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One of the problems with adults is they stop believing in real things. They only believe in made-up things, like stock markets, marketing plans, reality TV and internet memes. See, adults think they know what reality is, while they’re only squinting at the shadows moving on the cave wall.

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A quote slightly-tweaked for writers

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“To gain mastery over reality is to create a mythology worth living for. Your head is the space from which all meaning derives. It is the shaman’s – and writer’s/artist’s/musician’s [my addition] – role to shine light on that meaning in order, like a wind-up doll, to make you go.” – Thomas T. Hills