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Writing True
Looking from the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice Sooner or later, every writer feels the need to talk about her writing. It is in the bones. I have many shelves of writing books and one thing I have learned from them is that they can’t tell me how to write. Yes, we can learn excellent grammar, great plotting skills and clever metaphors, but in the end, writing comes from both the subconscious (the Jungian side of the brain) and the conscious (the thinking vibrant mind that is daily renewed by our observations, reading and engagement with others). The writer’s mind must sometimes engage itself with darkness as well as light, the…