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,...

To hell with last words.
Let’s try to make
one sentence
that’s rightly positioned
within a manageable context
so that we can utter it
to somebody else
and they’ll understand it.

—Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry discusses life

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“The Most Beautiful Train Ride in the World” (Part 5)

“The Most Beautiful Train Ride in the World” (Part 5)

  Riding the Ella Odyssey: Oceans of Tea (Part 5 of 5) (In case you missed it, here is a link to Part 1) After Nanu Oya, the huge vistas calmed to an ocean of plantations with tea pickers interspersed here and there. The neat, undulating rows of tea bushes among Dr....

If a nation loses its storytellers,
it loses its childhood.

—Peter Handke

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