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Non mortem timemus, sed cogitationem mortis
The thing I found most interesting this week was what James Jackson said about just sitting down and finding a place to write. I don't personally have a designated place where I write; I just sit on a couch somewhere in my house with my laptop whenever I have something I need to write. I think that I'll probably get around to finding a designated spot and see if it helps me write. I also thought what Jackson said about the statistics of who will like your writing was interesting. I liked how he talked about how he was still confident enough to keep writing books, even though statistically, only a quarter of his readers would actually enjoy them. I personally have an irrational dislike of letting people read my writing; I think partially for fear that my writing will be judged. The most important takeaway from his message for me is to just keep writing no matter what other people think. It's a good message that I'll keep in mind as I'm writing in the future, and with the other things I do, since the message can apply to many other things.
In addition to hearing from James Jackson, this week I also learned more about the short stories and elements of fiction. After reading the pieces with humor as a prime element, I didn't find them to be particularly funny, at least in the traditional sense. The story about rape fantasies was only funny because of how weird it was, and The Drunkard was sort of funny in a corny, ironic way. That being said, they were funnier than most other Lit-y stories I've read before, and I can definitely see how the humor makes the stories merely weird, not super weird and dark.
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