Leigh Bardugo's Blog, page 675
September 5, 2013
September 4, 2013
"Writers are too neurotic to ever be happy. - Connie Willis"
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(via writingquotes)
One of the rare things I disagree with the brilliant Connie Willis on, though I do take her point.
(via gwendabond)
I don’t know. Maybe it’s true! I hope not, though. I was on the phone to a writer friend, and we were talking about goals, and I said I wanted to be happy, and I felt startled and a little awed by the idea.
(via sarahreesbrennan)
It was me! I was the writer friend she was on the phone with. “Happy?” I believe I said, as though I’d misheard her. “I didn’t know you wanted to be happy.”
(via hollyblack)
When I was in my early 20s and drowning in pretension, I remember my girlfriend at the time asking me why I didn’t even seem to WANT to be happy, and I told her that I didn’t find happiness a compelling goal for life.
I’m still not really motivated by a desire to be happy, and I may well be too neurotic ever to be happy. But I have come to believe now that happy is one of the most noble and heroic things that people can be. I undervalued happiness because I associated it with simplicity and inattention. In fact, I suspect that happiness almost always results from being both attentive and accepting.
Maybe that is what writers as a rule cannot do? I don’t know. I can be accepting until I have to be attentive, and I can be attentive until I have to be accepting, but when asked to do both, I always retreat into fiction, where I make the damned rules.
(via fishingboatproceeds)
Tacos make me happy
(via dankrokos)
I have bouts of acute depression. I wrestle with anxiety. But I’m very happy and that’s true most of the time—maybe because I spent so much of my life feeling miserable and stuck. I’ve had a lot of awful jobs. This is a very good one. This is the dream I thought was gone. On the days I feel low, I remind myself of that. Also, tacos.
September 3, 2013
Hi Leigh! You mentioned in an interview that you have a different relationship with the Darkling than your fans do, because you know all of his secrets. Will there come a time in Ruin and Rising that your audience will know some of those secrets, too? Wil
You will certainly know a lot more after Ruin and Rising. I can’t really say more than that. (Apologies!)
I can tell you that I’ve written Darkling POV, but I’m still debating whether or not to release it.
Hi Leigh! You mentioned in an interview that you have a different relationship with the Darkling than your fans do, because you know all of his secrets. Will there come a time in Ruin and Rising that your audience will know some of those secrets, too? Wil
You will certainly know a lot more after Ruin and Rising. I can’t really say more than that. (Apologies!)
I can tell you that I’ve written Darkling POV, but I’m still debating whether or not to release it.
Hi Leigh! You mentioned in an interview that you have a different relationship with the Darkling than your fans do, because you know all of his secrets. Will there come a time in Ruin and Rising that your audience will know some of those secrets, too? Wil
You will certainly know a lot more after Ruin and Rising. I can’t really say more than that. (Apologies!)
I can tell you that I’ve written Darkling POV, but I’m still debating whether or not to release it.
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Every year in June, a brave group of daredevils in the city of Alesund, Norway stack up hundreds of wood pallets to a height of over 130 feet, which they then light on fire in celebration of Midsummer and John the Baptist’s birthday.
Norway: where they build monuments and burn them because metal.
vikings man….
only in my homeland.
I thought it was going to be some inspirational art installation about teamwork and stuff BUT THEN IT WAS A PILLAR OF FIRE AND IT JUST GOT EPIC
THE BEACONS ARE LIT
THE BEACONS OF MINAS TIRITH ARE LIT
GONDOR CALLS FOR AID
Aaaaaand there it is.
FANDOM
This seems like a really extreme way to play jenga.
I dont want him to be a hero.
<3 I don’t know why I...
I dont want him to be a hero.
