When I began writing seriously, I was surprised by the difficulty I had in writing the truth. I don't mean I was dishonest. I mean sentences & paragraphs are weirdly squirrelly things. They rarely say quite what I believe. Sometimes that remains the case even after 20 revisions!
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It changed my appreciation for what it means to speak the truth. On any complex subject, & often on simple ones, it's hard to do well (other than with near-cached thoughts), not because we're dishonest, but because it's difficult to sort our thinking out to that degree of clarity
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@jesswhittles wrote really good post which seems related to thishttps://jesswhittlestone.com/blog/2017/10/23/the-value-in-vagueness …1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
Thanks, I enjoyed that, very insightful! I've sometimes thought of teaching a class about dealing with uncertainty and vagueness. It seems to be the key to any kind of creative work. And very helpful in life, too!
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