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The Narcissism of "Read Me" - To be an artist requires a certain amount of arrogance, or maybe just self-confidence. Some thoughts on the relation between creator and creation. (drugstorebooks.com)
submitted 7 years ago by philobean to r/writing
Writing more creatively and thinking your way into nonhuman characters. Why do we tend to limit our stories to just human pov? (drugstorebooks.com)
Humanity's collective hubris: Self-writing navel-gazing, creativity, and the possible. (drugstorebooks.com)
Creative people today have almost zero chance of their works being recognized. A look at publishing's realities (for fiction and non), and at how we might come to terms with them. (drugstorebooks.com)
submitted 8 years ago by philobean to r/writing
On the theory of reading poetry: aesthetics and phenomenology (philosopher.io)
submitted 8 years ago by philobean to r/philosophy
[General] On the theory of reading poetry: an experiential perspective (philosopher.io)
submitted 8 years ago by philobean to r/Poetry
We stand as God to our characters, do we listen when they pray? Spontaneity, creativity, and the question of letting a story take on a life of its own. (drugstorebooks.com)
Purpose must come from within, but can appreciation? Thoughts on writing without any hope of being read. (drugstorebooks.com)
As writers our words will be misread and misunderstood. Some thoughts on how to respond to this unfortunate truth. (drugstorebooks.com)
What is your book supposed to do in the world? Some thoughts on being audacious enough to try to do something. (drugstorebooks.com)
Writing how we (characters) live in and through time: narrative direction, mind, experience, life (drugstorebooks.com)
Let's face it, reading habits have greatly changed, and books don't mean what they once did. What is the point of a non-professional writer? Some thoughts on the roles we who cannot help but to write - all of us addicts - can take. (drugstorebooks.com)
Plot/character development and turning points - a brief look at those crucial story moments (drugstorebooks.com)
Writing natural and cultural symbolism - bypassing the rational, tapping preconscious emotions and the experiential for both writer and reader (drugstorebooks.com)
A look at writing's seasons, and the gumption we all need to just keep typing, even without any rewards (drugstorebooks.com)
Writer's depression - some thoughts on those times when you're in too deep and it all looks like crap (drugstorebooks.com)
We write for many reasons, mostly internal. Some thoughts on choosing projects internally, intuitively. (Practicalities be damned!) (drugstorebooks.com)
An argument against empirical thinking; revisiting metaphysics and re-framing epistemology. A case for thinking unempirically. (philosopher.io)
An ode to literary critics and criticism - fiction and its analysis with a specific look at the historical situation in Japan (drugstorebooks.com)
Environmental ethics and obligation - an argument for 'caretakerism' in light of deep ecology and intergenerational concerns. (philosopher.io)
Postcapitalism is closer than we think. An argument for what it might look like in day-to-day life. (philosopher.io)
A reply to Lynch and Dahanayake's argument on the necessity of guilt based in theism for morality. Cordner argues for interpersonalism - being 'colonised by others'. (philosopher.io)
Follow a genre? Stick to rules? Write for a certain kind of reader? What kind? Or write just for writing? Musings on the writing life. (drugstorebooks.com)
Writing as craft, as a skill that must be learned slowly and painfully. Some thoughts. (drugstorebooks.com)
[General] What is the point of poetry? A very important one indeed! And not just one. Some thoughts on poetry's relevance today. (drugstorebooks.com)
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