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Sep 25, 2023Liked by Benjamin Carlson

Thank you. Beautiful sentences:

"But perception is an active process. Your readers do not simply ingest your words and acquire your ideas.Your audience brings their own assumptions and experiences to the act of reading. When they look through the window of your writing, half of what they see is their own reflection in the glass."

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Thank you! I really appreciate it.

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“Every detail is fodder for interpretation.

A certain amount of misunderstanding is inevitable with any work of writing.

You are, after all, a mirror.

Your job as a writer is to polish the glass.”

Thanks for writing this. It somehow feels like both the goal and the purpose.

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