I begin my journey into blogging with a quote from Virginia Woolf, one of the most influential writers on my philosophy of writing, on the creative process and transmutation – turning moments into art:
He has to have the courage to say that what interests him is no longer ‘this’ but ‘that’: out of ‘that’ alone must he construct his work. For the moderns ‘that’, the point of interest, lies very likely in the dark places of psychology. At once, therefore, the accent falls a little differently; the emphasis is upon something hitherto ignored; at once a different outline of form becomes necessary, difficult for us to grasp, incomprehensible to our predecessors.
Modern Fiction, Virginia Woolf
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