Exaggeration is
a violence of language,
which, in politics,
is full of the threat
of violence of other kinds.
Exaggeration—
extremities of generalization,
language overpowering
knowledge—
prepared us for
the Civil War.

—Wendell Berry,
The Need to Be Whole

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Understanding the Writing Process for Fun and Profit

Understanding the Writing Process for Fun and Profit

Most of us have learned to approach writing as an activity. “I need to write __________,” fill in the blank: “an email,” “a report,” “a marketing blurb,” “a letter,” “a book,” or the like. We sit down, we draft what we want to say, we reread it to check for typos,...