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writing tips
Indeed, Wilde liked to say that one should live as a Spartan but speak like an Athenian. By which he meant that one should seek to live a simple and disciplined existence, but to speak and create with an eye towards beauty and culture.
Oscar Wilde on Writing
duality of the human psyche, particularly in manifestations of "good" and "evil
Helen Garner
themes
A parable is a succinct, didactic story, in prose or verse, that illustrates one or more instructive lessons or principles. It differs from a fable in that fables employ animals, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature as characters, whereas parables have human characters.[1] A parable is a type of metaphorical analogy.[2]
Parable
When the words “purpose,” “progress,” and “success” begin to sound like broken echoes.
We scroll through our feeds, chase recognition, and build our fragile identities out of data, yet beneath it all hums a quiet dread:
We scroll through our feeds, chase recognition, and build our fragile identities out of data, yet beneath it all hums a quiet dread:
The Philosophy of Nothingness: Walking Through the Heart of Nihilism
this is interesting
Garner said, in 1985, that writing novels was like "trying to make a patchwork quilt look seamless. A novel is made up of scraps of our own lives and bits of other people's, and things we think of in the middle of the night and whole notebooks full of randomly collected details".
Helen Garner
Ideas
telling a story, writing a poem, or lyrics from the point of view of an existing character. The character could be a fictional, or real for example, a mythological tale, retelling the story from a new perspective, or with my own take.
A character in a painting or piece of art.
My initial reason for writing is that I need to shape things so I can make them bearable or comprehensible to myself. It's my way of making sense of things that I've lived and seen other people live, things that I'm afraid of, or that I long for"