Tag: Writer

How Then Shall we Write?*

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.” Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums *Apologies to Francis Shaeffer for the “paraphrase” of the title. Over the last forty-seven years of our pandemic house arrest, and this summer’s unpleasantness, I’ve been trying to narrow my focus a bit. [See: Busy with Too …

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Important things to write

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true. American journalist, author, and Nobel Prize laureate, John Steinbeck, was born on this day in 1902 (died 1968). You had no idea that …

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