A Case For Quiet Characters in Writing
We're drowning in drama and main character energy and losing all complexity, subtlety, and nuance.
“This was a crystallizing moment in my teaching career: what afflicts literature, more than book banning, is this rapid loss of the ability to read for deeper meanings, to grasp subtlety, and to understand ambiguity. If conviction — instead of clarity, the kind of clarity that arrives via muddled thinking, repea…
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