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Isaac Asimov excerpt from the foreword to his short story "What If—," (first published 1952), personally collected in "Nightfall and Other Stories," (published 1969).

Reading both Asimov's writing and his behind the scenes thoughts on his own stories and the craft of writing always just has me going, this guy gets it, I get him and his popularity, because I've been asked the same question before, too. Where do you get your ideas...

From anything! if you are willing to think hard enough and long enough. Yes yes yes.

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“The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.”

— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

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I feel like many people have a fundamental misconception of what unreliable narrator means. It's simply a narrative vehicle not a character flaw, a sign that the character is a bad person. There are also many different types of unreliable narrators in fiction. Being an unreliable narrator doesn't necessarily mean that the character is 'wrong', it definitely doesn't mean that they're wrong about everything even if some aspects in their story are inaccurate, and only some unreliable narrators actively and consciously lie. Stories that have unreliable narrators also tend to deal with perception and memory and they often don't even have one objective truth, just different versions. It reflects real life where we know human memory is highly unreliable and vague and people can interpret same events very differently

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— A. Y.

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I am not writing, and I am not not writing... but yet a secret more sinister third thing...

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Anne Sexton, from A Self-Portrait In Letters

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#j.e.arbelo #poetry #me #poem #writer #winter #blizzard #snow #insomnia #adhd #ponderings #loud brain #thoughts

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"Self insert characters are cringe"

Bro I'm trying to survive capitalism with maladaptive daydreaming. Leave me alone.

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run-on sentences aren't real btw, that's a lie made up by loser control freaks who feel the need to stifle my reading speed with stop signs (a.k.a. "."); but i'm a woman of yield signs (,) and rolling stops (;) <- i accidentally made a pussy

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