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Reading and Creating

Posted on June 29, 2016 by KL Wagoner — 1 Comment

As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music. And,…

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Creativity: Crushing and Glorious

Posted on January 30, 2016 by KL Wagoner — Leave a comment

Creativity is a crushing chore and a glorious mystery. The work wants to be made, and it wants to be made through you. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert

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Don’t Wait for Inspiration

Posted on August 19, 2015 by KL Wagoner — 1 Comment

Don’t wait for others to inspire you. Don’t wait for inspiration at all…there’s no better reason to tell your story than a simple love of words. ~ Cara Lopez Lee

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Speculative Fiction: Culture Lab

Posted on August 14, 2015 by KL Wagoner — Leave a comment

Speculative Fiction: Culture Lab by Betsy James Speculative fiction (science fiction, fantasy, horror, magic realism, and slipstream) gives voice to those who explore societal and technological change along with deeper considerations of underlying archetypes of human experience. ~ from the…

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The World is Made of…

Posted on August 12, 2015 by KL Wagoner — Leave a comment

The world is made of stories, not of atoms. ~ Muriel Rukeyser

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The Book That Sparked My Love of Science Fiction

Posted on July 11, 2015 by KL Wagoner — Leave a comment

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne? The Time Machine by H.G. Wells? Brave New World by Aldous Huxley? All great books, but none of these classics was the first to take me away to another world. By 1967,…

When the Magic Comes…

Posted on February 18, 2015 by KL Wagoner — Leave a comment

We…don’t know what it is that sometimes comes to make our books alive. All we can do is to write dutifully and day after day, every day, giving our work the very best of what we are capable. I don’t…