illustration - sara wilson

Sara Wilson of Fly Okay Illustration, found on etsy here, loves to tell stories
through watercolor and more.  Some of her illustrations are even part of a series
making up a more rounded story.  She's very in touch with her insides and all
other things around us meant to inspire the greatest of stories.  She cites music,
Miyazaki, and the stumbled upon truths of life as some of her influences.

To the subject, a bit of Hayao Miyazaki's wisdom:
Even in the middle of hatred and killings, there are things worth living for.
A wonderful meeting, or a beautiful thing can exist. We depict hatred, but it is
to depict that there are more important things. We depict a curse, to depict the
joy of liberation.

on writing - susan sontag

The only story that seems worth writing is a cry, a shot, a scream.  A story
should break the reader’s heart.  The story must strike a nerve — in me.
My heart should start pounding when I hear the first line in my head.
I start trembling at the risk.

One can never be alone enough to write.  To see better.

To be a great writer, know everything about adjectives & punctuation (rhythm),
and have moral intelligence, which creates true authority in a writer.

There is a great deal that either has to be given up or be taken away from
you if you are going to succeed in writing a body of work

The writer does not have to write. She must imagine that she must. A great book:
no one is addressed, it counts as cultural surplus, it comes from the will.

- Susan Sontag

By Sara Wilson