Echoes in a Hollow Space

Random quote of the day:

“I see what happens when one gets very attached to material things. That's just not what my life is. That’s not what I love and that’s not what makes me feel good. What makes me feel good are the simple things in life, like somebody I can really talk to, when I’m not concerned about whether they are going to betray me. My life is rich because I have those kinds of people in my life.”

—Alicia Keys, Ebony, January 2004



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Random quote of the day:

“Trust everybody, but don’t sell your sword.”

—Paulo Coelho, Twitterfeed, September 11, 2012

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Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Random quote of the day:

“Never trust the artist. Trust the tale.”

—D. H. Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature

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Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Random quote of the day:

“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust

 

 

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Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Random quote of the day:


"It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust."

—Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, No. 79






( Illustrated version. )




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In the early chapters of Charged with Folly there was this thing that came up, and then I pushed forward with the story and completely forgot about it. The last couple of days as I was finishing off chapter 25, however, this thing came roaring back—and what I thought was just a clumsy way of describing an emotional state turned out to be a key plot element. Huh. What do you know.

Not only that, but it solved a particular problem with the ending that I've been worried about for months. "How am I going to fix that? I can't let that stand as is." "La di da la di da, tomorrow is another day. Something will come to me."

Some day this idiot trust in my process may not come through for me, but in the meantime I'm grateful it still does.

There's still a heap big bunch of ugly in this draft, and I'm not going to let anyone read it until I've made at least one pass through to reconcile some things, but I think...I think the major problems have been solved.

Happy 4th of July, everyone!


Random quote of the day:

"All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door."

—Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus