HappyJayHawk

@happyjayhawk.bsky.social

1 week ago

"A university has two distinct purposes. One is to get its students ready for life in the "real world". The other is to keep, in a cool dry place, the knowledge and wisdom that the real world isn't buying at the moment."
Jane Burroway
Writing Fiction
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writelykeekee

@writelykeekee.bsky.social

2 months ago

"Writing is such a solitary occupation, and we are so used to moiling at it until it's either perfect or due, that our first communal experience of our writing also tends to be awful judgment." — Imaginative Writing: The Elements of Craft by #JaneBurroway

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