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Conor Jest

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Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction

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I can’t imagine where we’d be without our sense of imagination. We’re all born with it and create our worlds within it.

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	Where the Witches Dwell (Everlan Trilogy Book 1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Where the Witches Dwell: Everlan, Book 1 by Conor Jest (Goodreads Author), E.J. Lavery (narrator), Jest Publishing (publisher) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Vex, Hex, Smash, Smooch: Let Verbs Power Your Writing

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The Art of the Short Story

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Wasn’t triggered by this book. Didn’t get emotional about how the author got his message across. Was inspired, though. Lots of useful ideas to explore the most impactful side of Story.
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“Ahh, but destiny and journey are ever-present, are they not? Like a bridge, they are forevermore here and there.”
― Conor Jest

tags: destiny, journey

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“Faith walks bridges, blind, and through the night.”
― Conor Jest, Where the Witches Dwell

tags: faith

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“Reality is but a cloud upon a windy day.”
― Conor Jest, Where the Witches Dwell

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“Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.”
― Euripidides

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“In writing, you must kill all your darlings.”
― William Faulkner

tags: revision, writing

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“the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat”
― William Faulkner

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“During the four days of the storm, I became accustomed to the soft light of lamps and candles and grew to like it. When the power came on again, I discovered that I was actually disappointed. The electric lights seemed cold and impersonal; they revealed too much.”
― Damon Knight, One Side Laughing: Stories Unlike Other Stories

tags: candlelight, electric-light, electricity, feng-shui

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“With him died a story
That will not be retold:
How, forsaking glory,
Achilles grows old
While Hector dusts his trophies
Behind high walls-
For in his unsung strophes
Troy never falls”
― R.S. Gwynn, No Word of Farewell: Selected Poems, 1970-2000

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