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Laura Moore

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How to meander without getting lost

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If you asked me to write five hundred words on a landscape, I’d stare back blankly. You won’t find fresh descriptions of dew or decay here, though a long time ago I thought that’s what literary writing was s...

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Encountering an ancient debate about brainrot

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In Plato’s Phaedrus, Socrates relates a conversation between the Egyptian god Theuth, who invented writing, and the mythical King Thamus.

Theuth claimed that writing would improve wisdom. King Thamus d...

17 days ago
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Would you play a video game about a medieval nun?

I find myself developing a video game about Hildegard of Bingen.

Which stands as my chief defense for the silence here of late. I haven’t been conventionally writing, but I’ve been doing lots of other kinds — mostly around this video game....

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What happens when I try to write fiction

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Recently I asked a published author what writing a short story is like.

If that seems like an odd question, you should know that I can’t write fiction. I’ve tried — oh I’ve tried — but it’s like squeezing th...

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The Category Error, Part 2: Life before breadwinners

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    Lifelong obsessive quester. I cycle through fixations; currently: Virginia Woolf, category errors, how we define art, and gender mapping. Published in Electric Literature; forthcoming in The Philosopher print mag.

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