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Profound And Authorial

Profound And Authorial

I think we should quit trying to sound profound and authorial when we write too.

Gosh, this points gets me.

(Maybe it’s the need for self-importance?)

I often want to make some kind of keen and erudite point.

But people don’t want to be talked to like that. Do they?

I know I don’t.

And the second I head off in that direction, I feel like I lose my conversational tone.

Understand: People want to feel like they are at home.

It often happens that when we try to write something “important,” such as a novel, story, or poem, we become self-conscious. We try to be profound and authorial. We concentrate on the elegance of individual sentences and forget that all writing is a communication between one person to another—a process we follow in a letter without even thinking about it.

-John Erickson, Story Craft (Amazon)

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