“The more lucidly we think, the more we are cut off: the more deeply we enter into reality, the less we can think.” –C.S. Lewis, Myth Became Fact, World Dominion In a sense, we fiction writers should love this quote. I know it’s true that the more reality I have to stomach in a given day, the less I’m able
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Interesting thoughts last time, group. I’m always encouraged at the amount of thought going on about this "being in and not of" business. It’s been a long day and I’ve had some exciting bits and some unsettling bits, as usual, but I need to get out one thought before packing it in. Let go of everything you know about writing
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How did we get on the subject of being in the world and not of it again? Mark? At any rate, it’s a good starting place for tonight. Given James Frey’s recent crash and burn and all the controversy about writing memoir as fiction and who’s to blame and who really cares if it sells books and on and on,
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Welcome back! So did you give yourself brain cramps on that little homework assignment I left you? I’m a little disappointed no one mentioned wanting to know more about me and my embarrassing habit of talking to myself. No interesting thoughts to share? No potentially inflammatory and embarrassing topics to suggest? You must all be sleeping off that holiday hangover,
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This Christmas, we had the privilege of going to Hong Kong to see where our new sister grew up. Dan and Fun (Cassy) had their reception on Christmas eve in the upper dining room at the YMCA in downtown Hong Kong (similar to the Hilton by American standards). They failed to tell us it was also the destination for more
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