ianbrunner:Five years ago today the author Brian Jacques passed away. Some of my earliest memories
ianbrunner: Five years ago today the author Brian Jacques passed away. Some of my earliest memories are finished the novels Mossflower and Redwall at the scholastic book fair of Dewitt Clinton elementary school. I remember running home every day to watch the PBS series of the novels. I remember falling in love with the way words paint images on the psyche and the way characters shape us long after we’ve put the novel down. I remember that every novel in the Redwall universe ends with an invitation to come back again someday for a visit. In middle school I was writing Redwall fanfiction before I even knew what fanfiction was. Brian Jacques along with a few other authors shaped what I’m studying currently and want I hope to be doing in the future. He once wrote in a motivational writing speech “You know, you’ll disappoint me, if in a few years time, I’m not standing on line at a bookstore, waiting for you to sign my copy of your book. Come on, all it takes is you, and determination, self belief, and of course, the flame, which came from that first tiny spark. Your pal, Brian Jacques” And that is now one of my main goals. To tell stories that people want to hear. I always remember this day because it defined so much if who I am and I always return to the Redwall novels when I need to remember there is beauty in the world. -- source link
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