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The Challenge Of Monologue

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This life began with hardship and adversity, and for many years only the spirit of perseverance sustained me. It kept me alive and led me across continents, before slowly turning inwards and becoming a deep appreciation for all life. My journey showed me the inner workings of my own soul, gave me the tools to truly connect with others, and revealed several paradoxes at the heart of society which seem both necessary and intractable. I have come to believe our universe holds mysteries beyond anything we can imagine, and I wish to explore them with you but face a bind. It must be resolved before we can truly begin, so let's explore it together. What I have to share, by its very nature, is best expressed through conversation and connection, but as reader and writer we are bound together by monologue without recourse. We cannot ask each other questions, we cannot prompt each other for new thought, and we cannot replicate the nuance or closeness that dialogue fosters. If only there wer...
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Death of a Critic

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The drive to publish my work has been building within me for many years, but a voice has always kept me silent. This voice is woven deeply into my mind and I have come to know it as my inner critic. It relentlessly keeps me and my work hidden away with fear and shame, but over the past seven years I have been relentlessly and mercilessly dismantling it. Today marks a turning point where my own mind is no longer working to silence me. In the past my critic would have stopped me by now. It would have nit picked every sentence, every word, and every syllable. After perfecting those, it would have focused on the tone, the flow of the words, and the style. Eventually those too would be perfected, only to meet with the critic’s most desperate defence: Appeal to futility. In the past my critic would have me believe nothing is truly worth doing and everything is ultimately futile, but not today. I am resisting those messages, and I am choosing to publish not in spite of the need perfection a...
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