Tag: Writing Culture
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Writing Futures from the Present
Lately I’ve been processing the strong possibility that I won’t get to keep my new home in Colombia (at least, not full-time for a few years), and it’s been difficult to focus on writing in the middle of this grief. Compounding that difficulty is the fact that I’m currently working on my entry for Grist’s…
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A Little More Conversation: Why We Need More Literary Discourse Like Ray Nayler’s New Interview Series
If the individual was melancholic, then the whole world was melancholic as well, the Baroque understanding of melancholia declared, but the reverse was also true: if the world was melancholic, then every single person had to be melancholic. … Corresponding to the mixing of the four humors, four kinds of melancholia could arise, [Robert] Burton…
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11 Considerations When Writing Characters from Other Demographics
Hi folks! Today I’m going to be talking writing craft one-on-one with a few writers, and one of the day’s key topics will involve the question of how best to write people from other demographics. My answer to this, on the surface, is pretty simple: Write people! But in practice, writing is an emotional exercise,…
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