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The House Built by Writing
The Beginning Without a Blueprint When I started Tom’s Blog in 2019, I chose one of the most familiar templates available on WordPress.com. Anyone…
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The Library We Carry Within
The Strange Feeling That Something Is Missing Most people who spend time reading today eventually notice a curious feeling. They finish article after article,…
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The History That Cannot Be Faked
When Publishing Became Easy The internet was once celebrated as the place where anyone could become a publisher. Before the web, sharing ideas with…
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The Long Search for Spontaneous Writing
The Strange Freedom of a Pencil One of the most surprising discoveries about writing is that its best moments often do not feel like…
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The Canon Principle
Writing, Meaning, and the Shape of a Life When Music Changes the View When my wife walked through the church during our wedding, Pachelbel’s…
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When Characters Begin to Live
When Admiration Does Not Become Conviction For a long time, I wondered whether my inability to appreciate Hideaki Anno’s films revealed some weakness in…
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The World Made Audible
The First Question Was Smaller Than the Answer The question began in a practical place. How does one become more articulate? It sounds like…
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The Room That Has Never Changed
James Allen, Timeless Prose, and the Discipline of Writing Toward Essence Entering a Room That Has Never Changed Every time I return to the…
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The Books That Remain With Us
The Hunger That Short Reading Cannot Satisfy We live in a time of extraordinary access to written material. Every morning brings new articles, commentary,…
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The Lost Paragraph
Recovering Sustained Thought in an Age of Fragmented Information Full of Information, Hungry for Understanding We live in a time of extraordinary informational abundance.…
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The Language at a Good Distance
The Imperfect Language That Became a Common Medium English is an unusual candidate for a global language. Its spelling often refuses to cooperate with…
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Write, Think Later
The Line That Stayed There are lines from movies that stay with us longer than the plot itself. I do not remember every detail…