Kirsten Ogden writes about how-to-write-books in The Kenyon Review:
Make an appointment with myself! Sit down to write! Yes! That is what needed to be done! And I did do this, for about a week. Then I overslept one morning, got bored with the journal entries another morning, and somehow my new, regular, organized, appointment-defined writing [...]



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A Writer’s Notebook X

Neoteny. The retention by adults within a species of traits previously seen only in juveniles.
We have a shifting perception of neoteny at the present time. It was traditionally seen as a sign of weakness, immaturity. Someone who had, for whatever reason, failed to grow up.
Humans have tinkered with the development of other species for millennia, [...]






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