Five Questions: The Narrator

1. Why do you blog?
I think that I blog to test things out in a real environment. I can re-read new ideas myself, or I can share them with those familiar with my work and myself, but it is fascinating and valuable to see how writing is publicly perceived by “strangers” in a small sample [...]






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You cannot, the realist claims, represent people without taking account of the things that people use and acquire in order to define themselves - their tools, their furniture, their accessories. These things are indeed part of the very definition of "character," of who one is and what one claims to be. Peter Brooks

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