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MHowell, to 13thFloor in Octavia Butler’s Advice on Writing
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@Anansi Contrast that with this description of motivation for writing by @pluralistic Cory Doctorow on Writing:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/09/the-memex-method/

Anansi,
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@MHowell asɛnka nni ho! Great read and good points, especially this one:

If you’re a writer or an activist or anyone else engaged in critical synthesis, then the news-stories, ideas, sights and sounds you encounter are liable to tug at your attention: this is a piece of something bigger, and maybe something important.

That tug is the old call of the storyteller - that there is something vital in your words, needed by someone, somewhere, and that alone makes the tale worthwhile to tell.

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