lit hub article we wanted to share, but knew that we would be judged harshly (and normal with welcomes but we still {still!} haven't recovered)

Been on both ends of this shard. Some magic mirror. FBfam, we don't hide. Heartened+vampire.

"Graham Greene has famously written about the “ice chip in the heart” that allows novelists to plagiarize the lives of friends—an image he took from Hans Anderson’s The Snow Queen, in which a sliver of glass from a shattered magic mirror lodges in the heart of a young boy, Kai. For Greene, that chip of ice is essential equipment. Nearly all writers have to ask whether they possess such a splinter, and to what degree."