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  • Upside Down Lessons

    Upside Down Lessons

    October 16, 2020
    by Life, Lifestyle, Stella Kanto, Uncategorized

    I 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…

    Read more: Upside Down Lessons
  • Shadowing Carlos Ruiz Zafón And His Own, Everlasting Shadow

    Shadowing Carlos Ruiz Zafón And His Own, Everlasting Shadow

    October 12, 2020
    by Books, Constantinos Kokkinolambos, Literature

    “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…

    Read more: Shadowing Carlos Ruiz Zafón And His Own, Everlasting Shadow
  • In Defense of Fan Fiction

    In Defense of Fan Fiction

    October 9, 2020
    by About writing, Demi Kraakman

    So 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.…

    Read more: In Defense of Fan Fiction
  • Meet the Board: Constantinos and Demi

    Meet the Board: Constantinos and Demi

    October 5, 2020
    by Uncategorized

    A 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…

    Read more: Meet the Board: Constantinos and Demi
  • Meet the Board: Chelsea and Jeremy

    Meet the Board: Chelsea and Jeremy

    October 2, 2020
    by Uncategorized

    Do 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…

    Read more: Meet the Board: Chelsea and Jeremy
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