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bombs away
I'M IN. I don't think I've managed to get to one of these things before the comment capacity is maxed out for a very long time, so let's see if I have any luck this time around. Anon, not-anon, whatever.
Plus, the text, it's so colourful! YOU WANT TO CLICK.
❝i've always wanted to tell you❞
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I copied this passage from Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, printed it, and then stuck it up above my computer in the hope that staring at it will do me good. Sometimes what you need isn't a pep talk but rather a reminder that no story ever wrote itself, and it's always easy to think up new excuses not to take the chance.
Plus, the text, it's so colourful! YOU WANT TO CLICK.
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I copied this passage from Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, printed it, and then stuck it up above my computer in the hope that staring at it will do me good. Sometimes what you need isn't a pep talk but rather a reminder that no story ever wrote itself, and it's always easy to think up new excuses not to take the chance.
...he had always spoken of his book as something for the distant future. He had a quite unreasonable terror of committing himself to paper which eight years of London adulation had not cured. All his volumes of private notes and histories and journals had yet to be seen by anyone ... He could never believe himself ready to publish: he could never be sure that he had got at the truth; he did not believe he had thought long enough upon the matter; he did not know if it were a fit subject to place before the public...