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The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer’s sense of what a story wants to be is only vaguely visible through the penumbra of inspiration.

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Still, I’d thought I’d had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.
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Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
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Book Center Character Imagine Person Place Read Single Truly
I thought that, with so much current attention focused on the topic of North Korea, I might share what I think are three books which cast a rare light on the elusive realm of North Korea.
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Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.
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Choose Father Love Much One Orphan Twice
Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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Book Character City Imagine Literary Novel World Written Year
Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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Future Imagination never Past Present Use
Life brings what it brings. I might be young but I’ve learnt this: prepare for each blind corner with your strongest shoulder dropped, ready to smash through whatever is thrown at you next.
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Blind Bring Corner Dropped Dust Each Learnt Life Motivational Prepare Smash Stronger Taken
All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.
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All Enemy Lesson Life Need Taught
Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings
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Action Desire Feeling Hidden Longing Personal Revealing True Whispering
Had she never been hungry enough to eat a flower? Did she not know that you could eat daisies, daylilies, pansies, and marigolds?
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Daisies Eat Flower Hungry Life Marigold never Pansies Rose
[I]n communism, you’d threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.
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Bribe Communism Dog Obedience Obtained Socialism Threaten
All the human actions we think of as essential to a character – had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.
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Action Censored Character Essential Human Punish State
What’s less romantic than staring alone at a blank screen? And edgy? I’ve changed the cat little because I didn’t know what my characters were going to say next.
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Alone Character Edgy Less Little Next Romantic Staring
Writing is hard work, and if anything’s true about the process, it’s that fact that a good story is hard to find and even trickier to get on paper.
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Anything Character Good Hard Process Story Work Writing
A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
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Familiar Fresh Good Inevitable Stories Story
But, in North Korea, it’s just the opposite. There’s one story. It’s written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters.
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Character Conscripted Country Job Opposite Secondary Story Written

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