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NEAR THE VENT: A THEORY OF ART
Some of the most important things on earth go unwitnessed. Hydrothermal vents are such things. Often existing miles deep in the sea, the vast majority of them are completely unwitnessed by people. The processes of life on earth are largely driven by the power of these vents, which are cracks in the earth’s crust where…
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Report from the Electoral College
It is the constitutional duty of Electors to vote their conscience in the Electoral College. After all, it isn’t a rubber stamp. Any Elector that struggles to vote for Trump can, and should, change their vote to a more moderate Republican. The House of Representatives could then elect a different Republican. In “What Would Hamilton…
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The Famous Opening Paragraph of Haunting of Hill House
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks…
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Characterization Rules
Here are the prompts. Name the character. Use myself or someone I know discreetly. And I do, of course, want to have friends, so I’m very careful about how I use other people in my fiction. Borrow from a newspapers story. I’m a big fan of local papers where there’s lots of sort of gossipy…
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Metaphor
The word metaphor is itself a metaphor, from the Greek, meaning to carry from one place to another.
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NYT article about Workshopping
This NYT article discusses what makes a successful group, and I think it speaks also to what makes for a successful workshop. As the researchers studied the groups, however, they noticed two behaviors that all the good teams generally shared. First, on the good teams, members spoke in roughly the same proportion, a phenomenon…