J. Danielle

I think asking questions and framing work that way actually opens up a space for more engagement with the audience. It allows them to participate in the discovery.

There are two kinds of writing; alive writing and dead writing. Alive writing invokes sensuousness, expansion, and insight. It transforms and enlarges its reader. It is a kind of disclosure; simultaneously immanent and transcendent. Dead writing is passive, sentimental and afraid of telling the truth. It discloses nothing except its own... See more

Sycophancy has a kind of momentum. Like any form of groupthink, it is part conformity, part self-preservation. The first person to grovel is undignified, but each subsequent act of coward­ice allows the next person to acquiesce more easily.

The path to taste is really as simple as writing a little plus and minus in the margin more often.

The New Singlehood Stigma - The Atlantic