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Writing and the Search for Truth
The Truth About Truth To begin with, I encourage you to read “Why Absolute Truth is Still Worth Pursuing In a Narrative-Driven World” by Jay Nicorvo. You can find it here, in LitHub. What Nicorvo writes should be essential reading for everyone, but certainly for nonfiction writers, whose goal is, above all, the pursuit of…
Let Your Poems Be Weird
Poetry Recommendation: “Tomorrow, No, Tomorrower” by Bradley Trumpfheller Screenshotted from Poetry Foundation to preserve formatting. To read the poem’s text, find it here. I adore this poem. It gives me permission to be weird. It is kaleidoscopically uncategorizable, simultaneously provoking and resisting interpretation, finding joy and pleasure and play in…
The Emotional Evolution of Characters
What makes a character memorable? Why are some easily forgettable? There are characters from novels I read decades ago whom I still think about, while there are characters from novels I read only three months ago that I can barely recall. What’s the difference? Often, it’s a matter of connection between a character and the…