(Art) My Dystopian Library – Pt. 2

It’s a well documented fact that when I’m between projects or can’t write for some reason, I design book covers I don’t need. All of these were actual old covers that I simply modified to […]

(Art) My Dystopian Library – Pt. 1

It’s a well documented fact that when I’m between projects or can’t write for some reason, I design book covers I don’t need. All of these were actual old covers that I simply modified to […]

The success of the masterpieces seems to lie not so much in their freedom from faults—indeed we tolerate the grossest errors in them all—but in the immense persuasiveness of a mind which has completely mastered its perspective. —Virginia Woolf

Sweet are the uses of adversity/ Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous/ Wears yet a precious jewel in his head/ And this our life, exempt from public haunt/ Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks/ Sermons in stones, and good in everything. —Shakespeare, As You Like It

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. —Andre Maurois

(Curiosity) A Short History of Decay

With how many illusions must I have been born in order to be able to lose one every day! E.M. Cioran was a Romanian thinker who spent most of his life in France. This week, […]

We read because there exists something that every map denies.

(Curiosity) Writing Great Natural Magic in Fantasy

There are all different kinds of magic of course, but in fiction there are generally two: Machine Magic is usually part of a system where a certain outcome is more or less guaranteed as long […]

(Curiosity) Reading With a Tin Foil Hat

Those who compulsively hate on what’s popular never think that’s what they’re doing. Like the paranoiac who believes his tin foil hat is all that saves him from the government machine, these people legitimately confuse […]

A hull of words we secrete constantly

The dangers of life without death are avoided — they say — for ever. Not because from the mud of the boiling swamps the first clot of undivided life cannot again emerge, but because we […]