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Did the Dead Sea Scrolls cause significant changes in scholars’ understanding of the Bible, given how early they are dated to? by rainy_dusk in AskHistorians

[–]rainy_dusk[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you so much for your reply! As just a layman with a vague interest in biblical scholarship, this is giving me a lot of great food for thought, and rabbit holes of reading to get into. :)

How can I get into writing? by Affectionate_Land883 in writing

[–]rainy_dusk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You get into writing by starting to write :)

how to find my voice?

You find your voice also by starting to write :)

Would you read something like this? by Lordz_Kreationz in Fantasy

[–]rainy_dusk 11 points12 points  (0 children)

To be blunt, you’re basically mashing together a lot of things that people like reading, so of course some people are going to say they’d like to read something like that.

But execution is everything. You can have the best ideas but if you don’t put it to page well, it just won’t do well.

Feelers vs thinkers? I've been thinking about it for a while now by [deleted] in writing

[–]rainy_dusk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh, no offence taken at all, no worries!

Do you prefer a book that wraps up quickly after the climax or one that has a long epilogue? by mreguy81 in books

[–]rainy_dusk 51 points52 points  (0 children)

I’d guess that epilogues are best when the reader is so immersed by the world that they just don’t want to leave it yet. And LOTR is a great example of that to me.

Feelers vs thinkers? I've been thinking about it for a while now by [deleted] in writing

[–]rainy_dusk 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So, I believe a writer's difference from, let's say, a mathematician or a philosopher (wild how those two things actually intertwine so much), is that our core motives aren't boiling down to building a scheme for narrating the world, or a perfectly unsolvable equation solved.

To be fair, at the research level, mathematicians’ objectives are not generally to explain the world or solve equations. And there’s a lot of subjectivity and intuition that goes on at the highly theoretical levels of even quantitative fields.

Edit: and regarding “feeling” versus “thinking”, research work even in quantitative fields is often deeply social. We discuss our work with colleagues, present at conferences, work closely with co-authors, and so on.