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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
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writing this taught me a little something about autobiographical / confessional / memoiristic storytelling. i think previously i felt like to write about my life i'd have to give a lot of detail about specific times in my life and that felt overwhelming
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
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hello friends! i have just published my first substack post, "5 tips for how to have great conversations!!!" towards the end there is some actual overdue reflection on my personal @tpotvibecamp experience i hope you like it! qchu.substack.com/p/5-tips-for-h
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
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what i did in "5 tips..." was more like pick a theme (in this case "conversation") and "thread" a few small stories through my life relevant to that theme, which feels a lot more natural i expect to want to run through the same period of my life using more such themes / threads
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
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having a theme to stick to was enormously clarifying because it helped me make decisions at multiple scales about what to emphasize and what to leave out. running through the same events with a different theme i'd write something quite different
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
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the process reminds me of the way in which sometimes in emotional work memories arise, and not in chronological order - the memory that arises next is the next one that needs to be touched again, in "emotional order," which is just something else
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
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i think growing up i got the sense that nonlinear storytelling (any kind of telling of a story out of chronological order) was this sophisticated avant-garde thing to do but now i think it just naturally reflects how memory works. every act of storytelling is an act of memory
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