How Productivity Can Grow Out of Brokeness
'Despair and a sense of loss are not static conditions, but goads to our labor.'
--philosopher and Harvard professor Stanley Cavell
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A weblog devoted to spurring a conversation among those who use words to varying degrees in their daily work. Hosted by John Ettorre, a Cleveland-based writer and editor. Please email me at: john.ettorre@gmail.com. "There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real." --James Salter
Sunday, May 03, 2009
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- Name: John Ettorre
- Location: Cleveland, Ohio
I'm a Cleveland, Ohio-based writer, editor and writing coach, with more than 25 years of experience, including stints in Chicago and Washington, D.C. My work has appeared in more than 100 print and online publications, from the New York Times and the Christian Science Monitor to local and regional publications. My work has been recognized by awards (including an Emmy) from four journalism groups.
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2 Comments:
With all due respect to Stanley, I think he's nuts, at least where the "labor" is writing. A dark mood rarely inspires me, but maybe it's my Irish heritage. We try not to let anything distract us from our melancholy.
I like that last sentence, Mike. There's much truth in that, I think. And yes, writing is a whole different kind of labor for most people, different than just about any other kind of work. It takes a mix of inspiration and perspiration, but the ratio between the two can be quite different for different people. And of course age plays into that quite a bit as well. So point taken.
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