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Carolyn Young
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The “Job” of Writing
Since I was very young, I wanted to be a writer. I loved books. I loved words. But for whatever reason, I always thought that writing novels would be a side job, and that I’d have to do something else to make a living. Consequently, I didn’t start writing my first and only novel (so far) until I was forty. And it took six years, got rejected by countless agents, and so I turned to the world of sel
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“The water was deep red, and there were no waves. She looked straight down again, and she was standing on a cliff above a perfectly vertical and colorless slope that led to the water. It looked warm, and so she put her hands together over her head, and in one elegant motion she leaned over and pushed off into a flawless swan dive and floated through the air until her fingertips broke the smooth surface. Her skin changed color in the cold, cold water as she sank to the bottom, and she knew in the dream that she had become her own red demon, but she also knew in the dream that when she woke up she would never, ever remember why.”
― The Perfect View
― The Perfect View
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“The water was deep red, and there were no waves. She looked straight down again, and she was standing on a cliff above a perfectly vertical and colorless slope that led to the water. It looked warm, and so she put her hands together over her head, and in one elegant motion she leaned over and pushed off into a flawless swan dive and floated through the air until her fingertips broke the smooth surface. Her skin changed color in the cold, cold water as she sank to the bottom, and she knew in the dream that she had become her own red demon, but she also knew in the dream that when she woke up she would never, ever remember why.”
― The Perfect View
― The Perfect View
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