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Symbolism in Storytelling: Building Emotional Depth and Thematic Unity
Take a moment and think about the stories that have stayed with you long after you finished the last page—the ones that have burrowed into your mind, your heart, or your soul, continuing to occupy space. While I can’t guess the specific stories that are living rent-free in your mind, I’ll wager that they’re not…
On Rejection
As we know, life is full of rejection, and writers opt into even more of it. All writers “struggle with” rejection, like we all struggle with aging or high housing prices; but for surprisingly many of us, it is debilitating, the core reason we don’t share our writing, or even write at all. In this…
Once More, With Feeling: On Repetition in Poetry
If I had to listen to one piece of music forever, it might be “When David Heard,” by English Renaissance composer Thomas Tomkins, as performed by a vocal group called the Gesualdo Six. Over hundreds of listens, I’ve come to feel that “When David Heard” has a lot to teach us about the power of repetition in…