You stole my story and something's got to be done about it.
If Laura was so prolific with poems, and in truth she was, then what was the problem with Megan__ request? Couldn__ Laura, with a little doing, keep stringing together line after line of words and construct, in time, a novel? It seemed logical, but there was the matter of finding an idea and sustaining it. Only fire could do that. The fire of rebellion.Mario Vargas Llosa had not used the term __ire_ exactly, but rather had discussed the presence of __editious roots_ that could __ynamite the world_ the writer inhabited. He claimed that writing stories was an exercise in freedom and quarreling__ut-and-out rebellion, whether or not the writer was conscious of it. And this rebellion, Vargas Llosa reminded his readers, was why the Spanish Inquisition had strictly censored works of fiction, prohibiting them for three hundred years in the American colonies.
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If Laura was so prolific with poems, and in truth she was, then what was the problem with Megan__ request? Couldn__ Laura, with a little doing, keep stringing together line after line of words and construct, in time, a novel? It seemed logical, but there was the matter of finding an idea and sustaining it. Only fire could do that. The fire of rebellion.Mario Vargas Llosa had not used the term __ire_ exactly, but rather had discussed the presence of __editious roots_ that could __ynamite the world_ the writer inhabited. He claimed that writing stories was an exercise in freedom and quarreling__ut-and-out rebellion, whether or not the writer was conscious of it. And this rebellion, Vargas Llosa reminded his readers, was why the Spanish Inquisition had strictly censored works of fiction, prohibiting them for three hundred years in the American colonies.
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