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.
ADAM JOHNSONOnce the dust clears you will be standing tall, a champion, a victor. NOTHING will be able to knock you down once you’ve taken the biggest hits this life has to offer, so come on life, BRING IT!
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The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.
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. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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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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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous.
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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
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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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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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Conjure up all the strength you have and drive through whatever it is keeping you on your knees. Build up the strength and your knees may never buckle again!
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Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything
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I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.
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But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can’t live with what they’ve done.
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“A name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
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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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Where we are from… [s]tories are factual. If a farmer is declared a music virtuoso by the state, everyone had better start calling him maestro.
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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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