I signed this open letter. So did many other writers I know and admire. Have a read.
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We rarely have more than an couple of weeks of spring, and even that’s debatable. But I think we can declare that winter is over on the Thames Delta.
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I start with a situation, usually. Say I want to write about terraforming Mars—then I need a terraformer, a person opposed to terraforming, a political radical, a Machiavel, a builder, a psychologist, etc. The French structuralists spoke of characters as …
Reigen Eto (1721-1785) was a student of the renowned Zen Master Hakuin. At one point, Reigen left Hakuin’s temple to pursue the solitude of the mountains as a hermit. He remained in mountain solitude for ten years, pursuing the teaching …