Tag: reading
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Field Note: Dana Gioia on the Benefits of Reading Literature
I’ve long wondered about the actual benefits of reading literature. When I was a high school English teacher, my students would ask me what the purpose was of reading plays, poems, and novels. I think I said something about understanding human nature, but I didn’t really know what that meant, nor did my answer satisfy…
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Update on Writing Process: Towards Natural Form
I’ve grown increasingly frustrated with my writing. I never finish projects, abandoning them for the next, seemingly more promising idea. Part of the problem comes from constantly changing my identity as a writer–novelist one day, poet the next, ethnographer the day after that. This constant bouncing prevents me from wading deeper into any one pursuit.…
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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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