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Unread 12-28-2022, 10:07 AM
Max Goodman Max Goodman is offline
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Nick, There's an interesting question here, but with each post it gets harder to find. You began the thread with four paragraphs about yourself, and you've written a lot about yourself here since. If you wanted Eratos to focus on your question, I hope it's helpful that I point out a possible reason for what has developed instead. And I hope the following addresses the question you meant to ask.

One reason we read is to learn, so its reasonable to expect that writers know things. I suspect, though, that writing teaches us little or nothing that isn't about writing, and that what we learn from others' writing, its writers learned otherhow. (Related: we don't tend to learn from lit because its writers know things others don't, but because of the ways they express those things.)

Regular writing, though, may give us better access to what we know, just as, for instance, keeping a dream journal seems to give us better access to our dreams.

FWIW.
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