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Upside Down Lessons
Read more: Upside Down LessonsI spend a reasonable amount of time balancing the rest of my body on my hands. An intricate cocktail of corporal coordination, concentration and sheer willpower, handstands will let you look at the world from a different perspective (heh). Years of negotiating with gravity in this way have rewarded me not only with an increased…
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Shadowing Carlos Ruiz Zafón And His Own, Everlasting Shadow
Read more: Shadowing Carlos Ruiz Zafón And His Own, Everlasting Shadow“I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.” This first line of Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s novel The Shadow of the Wind still echoes in my mind, haunting my dreams while also reminding me of my own humble beginnings; just as the protagonist’s, Daniel Sempere’s…
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In Defense of Fan Fiction
Read more: In Defense of Fan FictionSo far, whenever I’ve mentioned the word fan fiction, people either didn’t know what it was or thought about it as something to look down upon. They associate it with either some perverse version of the original work, or with someone who takes another author’s work and changes it to make it all about themselves.…
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Meet the Board: Constantinos and Demi
Read more: Meet the Board: Constantinos and DemiA Spanish author once wrote that “coincidences are the scars of fate”. Since I happen to really like that author, when I coincidentally stumbled upon Writers Block for the first time I knew fate was calling me. Or perhaps it was calling me off… Oh well, I guess it’s too late now. At least I…
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Meet the Board: Chelsea and Jeremy
Read more: Meet the Board: Chelsea and JeremyDo you know that feeling of closing a good book? That dull thud of the pages being pressed together at last? What you really want is to open the book again, search every single page for that secret entrance that allows you to enter and live in the pages of the story forever. But who…




