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Writer’s Log 240408: The Power of Doing Nothing
Last week I wrote about pushing through the mind’s resistance when writing. But this week reminded me that my mind’s resistance is much stronger than I give it credit for. My usual routine is to write immediately after eating breakfast. But on Tuesday morning I gazed forlornly into my oatmeal and considered plunging my face…
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Writer’s Log 240331: Learning to Tolerate Discomfort; Experimenting with the Dialectical Journal
Between more formal writing pieces (assuming I actually finish any), I plan on posting these “writer’s logs,” as a way of sharing my development as a writer, the problems I’m encountering, and the ideas I discover while reading. Hopefully doing this has some educational benefit or will begin a dialogue about writing. With that said,…
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Denying the Darkness of the Human Condition in Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown”
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s allegory, “Young Goodman Brown,” explores the consequences of denying the darker side of one’s own human condition. On the surface, it’s about a Puritan in seventeenth century Salem who loses faith in humanity after attending a black mass in the forest, and discovering that the pious townspeople are followers of the devil. But…
The Whale Belly 