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Emergent Authorship: Creativity à la Communing

I’m an agnostic, on my most curmudgeonly days an atheist, but there’s something spiritual about writing. And I like writing. I can only describe being a writer as someone who expresses the landscape of their inner world while making contact with the landscape of the outer world. Mystical, freaky, and...

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Emergent Authorship: Creativity à la Communing

I’m an agnostic, on my most curmudgeonly days an atheist, but there’s something spiritual about writing. And I like writing. I can only describe being a writer as someone who expresses the landscape of their inner world while making contact with the landscape of the outer world. Mystical, freaky, and...

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Emergent Authorship: Creativity à la Communing

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I’m an agnostic, on my most curmudgeonly days an atheist, but there’s something spiritual about writing. And I like writing. I can only describe being a writer as someone who expresses the landscape of their inner world while making contact with the landscape of the outer world. Mystical, freaky, and semi-creepy—right?

The best writing is unpredictable. As I write this sentence, and as you read it, it’s ever becoming what it is, its meaning ever emerging from the process of its being written. If it sounds as if my writing has no plan, it’s because you’re right. Serendipity steers my mind and keyboard and pen—and frankly my life—into unknown territory, largely by the... (read 688 more words →)

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