In last week’s post we considered the issue of being misread and some responses or attitudes that a writer could take towards that particular prickly pear. In thinking about being misread though we might miss the larger picture, which is being read at all. That, we must never forget, is a luxury and the furthest […]
Monthly Archives: January 2018
An Audience of One
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Tagged Expectation, readers, the writing life
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Anticipating reader sloth
If there’s one commonality between what I’ve learned through my studies in my graduate degrees and my personal experiences as a writer it’s that very few people read well. With care, with precision, with enough time and effort to hold the text in line and by the hand as one advances from Point A to […]
The Writer’s role
Writing – what’s the point anymore? Oh, there are those of us who write for their daily bread, and for them the raison d’ĂȘtre is as plain as day, but for those of who don’t live in New York City or London just what are we doing? Why? And what are we trying to accomplish […]
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Tagged being a writer, modernity, roles, the writing life
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