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Carl Purcell

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Carl Purcell is an Australian, Sydney based author. He has written two contemporary fantasy novels and is the co-writer of the popular Australian comic series Winter City, which began in 2012 and met with critical acclaim. His work has also been featured in the Australian speculative fiction magazine Aurealis.

More about Carl, his work and his endlessly rambling thoughts can be found on his blog, his twitter, or on Facebook.

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Carl Purcell I tell it its not real. This answer has earned me a lot of flack in the past, but hear me out. I refuse to accept that writer's block exists. There ar…moreI tell it its not real. This answer has earned me a lot of flack in the past, but hear me out. I refuse to accept that writer's block exists. There are times I write a lot, and times I write a lot less. There are times all I want to do is write and times where I just don't feel like writing.

But writer's block isn't an option for a professional writer. Sometimes the words just have to come and sometimes they'll do it willingly and sometimes they'll come kicking and screaming and trying to gut you with the pointy end of a V. Eventually the words fall in line, either way.

I don't allow writer's block to be a part of my world. Like the Goblin King, it has no power over me as long as I don't give it that power.(less)
Carl Purcell The satisfaction in knowing you've told a story that brought enjoyment into somebody's life.…moreThe satisfaction in knowing you've told a story that brought enjoyment into somebody's life.(less)
Average rating: 3.46 · 39 ratings · 13 reviews · 4 distinct works
Sorceress' Blood

3.50 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions
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Winter City Volume One

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3.44 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2014
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Pilgrimage

3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions
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Summer's End

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Bumping Geese The Final Chapter: A Tale of Two Novels

You may have noticed that I haven't enjoyed the last few Goosebumps Books I've read. I did something different, this week. I skipped the next Goosebumps book, something called 'Deep Trouble' and read book 20, 'The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight'. And then, to mix things up, I read another book. But more on that later.

This is a Goosebumps Book

Scarecrows, as I'm sure you know, are cool. And spoopy.

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John Green
“Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself.”
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Raymond Chandler
“From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.”
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“The streets were dark with something more than night.”
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“When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.”
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Mark Twain
“Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination? No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is. Only the mad can be happy, and not many of those. The few that imagine themselves kings or gods are happy, the rest are no happier than the sane. Of course, no man is entirely in his right mind at any time, but I have been referring to the extreme cases. I have taken from this man that trumpery thing which the race regards as a Mind; I have replaced his tin life with a silver-gilt fiction; you see the result--and you criticize!”
Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger

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