See, I thought I was so clever borrowing this concept from natural history to describe the human condition, and just last month came across a delightful Meditative Story, “Writing the Main Character” by Franklin Leonard, using “punctuated equilibrium” in exactly the same way. Great minds, I guess. Still, I thought I was so clever. To… Continue reading Punctuated Equilibrium
I’ve had a complicated relationship with writing. When I was really young, like age 9 – 11, I wrote creatively, and people who read it just loved it. It was the usual kid stuff – enchanted forests with talking animals, runaway orphans having adventures, stuff like that. This was in the 80’s, and my parents… Continue reading What’s the Assignment, Again?
I studied writing in college like a lot of mentally ill people major in psychology – to figure out what the hell was wrong with me. I’d been told my whole life that I was a good writer; it was pretty much literally the only thing people identified that I was good at. Yet I… Continue reading Recorded Memory
