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Alyssa Hollingsworth
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Resilience Questionnaire: Adapted for Characters
I’ve been spending the past few years getting my doctorate degree in creative writing with the thesis Breaking the Curse: Retelling a Folk Fairy Tale to Explore Trauma and Healing in Novels for Young People. During my research, I came across Donna Jackson Nakazawa’s brilliant book Childhood Disrupted. She included a resilience questionnaire, which I have adapted here for creative writers to use in
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What the River Knows (Secrets of the Nile, #1)
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I'm listening to the audiobook for an actual job related reason. I'm about an hour from the end. I don't know if I can take many more "sounds of masculine approval". They keep breaking up and it gives me hope. Then they get back together. I keep shou ...more |
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"Oh gosh, I really dislike this book... 150 pages in and I can't continue until page 413 (why is this book so long anyway?). I just did not like this author's sense of humor. I didn't think anything she described was "cute", nothing that was supposed "
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“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”
― Mere Christianity
― Mere Christianity
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
― The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It
― The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It
“Some want to live within the sound
Of church or chapel bell;
I want to run a rescue shop,
Within a yard of hell.”
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Of church or chapel bell;
I want to run a rescue shop,
Within a yard of hell.”
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“An artist cannot do anything slovenly.”
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“Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.”
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