Imagine A World In Which No Writer

In America, The Stories We Tell Ourselves And We Tell Each Other In Fiction Have To Do With Individualism. Every Person Here Is The Center Of His Or Her Own Story. And Our Job As People And As Characters Is To Find Our Own Motivations And Desires, To Overcome Conflicts And Obstacles Toward Defining Ourselves So That We Grow And Change.

But, In North Korea, It's Just The Opposite. There's One Story. It's Written By The Kim Regime. And 23 Million People Are Conscripted To Be Secondary Characters. There, As A Youth, Your Aptitude Towards Certain Jobs Is Measured, And The Rest Of Your Life Is Dictated, Whether You'll Be A Fisherman Or A Farmer Or An Opera Singer.

Writing Is Hard Work, And If Anything's True About The Process, It's That Fact That A Good Story Is Hard To Find And Even Trickier To Get On Paper. What's Less Romantic Than Staring Alone At A Blank Screen? And Edgy? I've Changed The Cat Little Because I Didn't Know What My Characters Were Going To Say Next.

Use Your Imagination Only On The Future, Never On The Present Or The Past.

Life Brings What It Brings. I Might Be Young But I've Learnt This: Prepare For Each Blind Corner With Your Strongest Shoulder Dropped, Ready To Smash Through Whatever Is Thrown At You Next. Once The Dust Clears You Will Be Standing Tall, A Champion, A Victor. Nothing Will Be Able To Knock You Down Once You've Taken The Biggest Hits This Life Has To Offer, So Come On Life, Bring It!