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Punctuated Equilibrium

February 18, 2022February 18, 2022 Stef P.Leave a comment

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

Writing

What’s the Assignment, Again?

January 14, 2022January 14, 2022 Stef P.4 Comments

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?

Life

Recorded Memory

December 2, 2021December 9, 2021 Stef P.Leave a comment

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

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