The business of the novelist is not to chronicle great events but to make small ones interesting.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Welcome to Zena’s aphorism month! Read more about why I’m celebrating aphorisms (as well as five facts you really should know about aphorisms): here.
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Zena Shapter
Zena Shapter writes from a castle in a flying city hidden by a thundercloud, reaching across age and genre into the heart of storytelling. A multi-award-winning author of speculative and contemporary fiction, she teaches writing at festivals, libraries and schools, judges various literary awards, mentors and edits other writers, and encourages everyone to value the importance of creativity. She loves movies, frogs, chocolate, and potatoes, though not at the same time!
“Oh, I like that one!” said @liza_belle on Twitter today!
Good pick Liz! Nice to see some aphorism-luv coming out of these posts 😀
Yes, I did like it. 🙂 Mainly because I think this is the great challenge of writing: to make the small and mundane – to make life itself, as most of us live it – beautiful and different.
Well said.