The void is my friend.
So I’ll keep going. And going. And I’ll learn and do better and sometimes I’ll hate myself for not giving up and I’ll rage at the shit around me but I remember what it’s like to look at the world with uncomplicated hope and I can’t stop until I get that back. What’s the alternative?
Chapter Nineteen, The Nightmare Before Kissmas by Sara Raasch
Magic, like music, does not always need to be explained. It is enough that it exists.
Writing and rewriting is the attempt to communicate not just a truth but the ecstasy of truth. It is not enough for me to convince the reader of my argument; I want them to feel that same private joy that I feel alone.
Part III: Bearing The Flaming Cross page 39 of 60, The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Continue reading “Review: The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer”But you don’t really need a magic pencil to write a magic book. All books are magic. An object that can take you to another world without even leaving your room? A story written by a stranger and yet it seems they wrote it just for you or to you? Loving and hating people made out of ink and paper, not flesh and blood? Yes, books are magic. Maybe even the strongest magic there is.
Storyteller Corner: The End, The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer