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Even the Darkest Night Will End

17 Jun

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Tags: life, literature, motivation, quote, Victor Hugo

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Stephanie Nikolopoulos is a writer, editor, writing teacher, and speaker based in New York City.

She is the coauthor, with Paul Maher Jr., of "Burning Furiously Beautiful: The True Story of Jack Kerouac's 'On the Road.'"

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Water is supple and wild and fierce. You are made up mostly of water. You are supple, wild, and fierce.
Here are a few of my favorite nonfiction reads from last year. As with my earlier fiction post, these do not encompass all of my nonfiction reads nor are they ranked.
I remember reading this quote years ago and not quite getting it. I’m a sound sleeper. If I *were* to wake up in the middle of the night, which would be highly unusual, it would be because I was awoken by a noise. I certainly wouldn’t wake up and begin writing. But lately I’ve been waking up in the morning with full creative ideas brainstormed and written in my head. It’s kind of mind blowing. Do you ever dream up solutions to your creative projects? Do you wake up in the middle of the night with creative inspiration? Is it actually worthwhile material or just weird dreams that don’t actually make sense after the thought? How can we cultivate the creative process as we’re sleeping? (I used to have vivid dream whenever I ate pizza!)
I read a bit of fiction last year, much it through @audible while out on my walks. Here are a few I enjoyed. The list is not ranked nor is it the sum total of what I read last year.
By making art, we become creators.
Sometimes I get lost in a painting. I obsess over the texture of paint. I am captivated by color. Shapes signify meaning to me the way punctuation in literature does. Growing my art collection is one of my goals. Here are a few artists whose works I would one day love to have grace my walls:

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