Tag: toy
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December 15, 2020
Earlier this year, I walked past a brick wall and saw a face peering out at me. Somebody had put a toy lizard in a little nook in the wall. It felt like such a gift to find him. I looked for the lizard on subsequent walks—there, still there, there again (although it was his…
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March 8, 2012
Stephen King, in his book On Writing, talks about how he works on his “toy truck” in the afternoon. A toy truck, for him, is a story that might turn into something and might not. In other words, it’s play. I love the phrase. It reminds me not to take what I do too seriously.…