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From today's Writer's Almanac: today is the birthday of Pico Iyer, who said, "The less conscious one is of being 'a writer,' the better the writing. And though reading is the best school of writing, school is the worst place for reading. Writing should . . . be as spontaneous and urgent as a letter to a lover, or a message to a friend who has just lost a parent . . . and writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger."

Like that last bit, that writing is in the end an intimate letter to a stranger. That's certainly what LiveJournal feels like to me.

Although it's nice that many of you strangers out there are becoming good friends.

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Date: 2004-02-11 07:46 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] amethistdolphin.livejournal.com
Wow! I love that!!!!! And I agree. It is! my best writting is when I dont think too much about it!

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Date: 2004-02-11 09:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] minnehaha.livejournal.com
Have you read any Pice Iyer? He's arguably the best travel writer alive.

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Date: 2004-02-11 10:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pegkerr.livejournal.com
Haven't gotten around to him yet. But on your recommendation, I'll put him on the list.

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Date: 2004-02-11 07:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] minnehaha.livejournal.com
Video Night in Katmandu. I'm sure it's in my basement somewhere.

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Date: 2004-02-11 09:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] willow-wode.livejournal.com
I think you and I quoted from the same source this morning. ;)

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Date: 2004-02-11 01:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fileg.livejournal.com
I get into a head space where I cannot read ficton (except for old friends and mysteries, which are candy) But even when I do, I always read quite a lot of non fiction, and Travel Narrative is one of my true passions. I happen to have put two books on the nightstand for *nexts* last night - one of them is Pico Iyer (The Lady and the Monk) A little serendipity!

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Date: 2004-02-11 01:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pegkerr.livejournal.com
Love your Sindarin name, btw.

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Date: 2004-02-11 02:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fileg.livejournal.com
thank you; it suits me.

I love your icons, especially the strike plate of the typewriter. We love many of the same quotes.

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Date: 2004-02-11 03:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] anya-writer.livejournal.com
Like that last bit, that writing is in the end an intimate letter to a stranger. That's certainly what LiveJournal feels like to me.

Same here, sometimes. Although it's been better now that I've been able to put faces to names.

I hope you & Rob are in great health. :)

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