This light hearted essay from my school days resurfaced today. This essay reads many of like my current posts in format & style. An essay was conceived by Montaigne as a test or experiment of ideas. Today I write blogposts to experiment with ideas & to learn the art of writing. There weren’t blogs when I finished school, but essays like these were the experimental foundations for the writing in today’s posts.
Tag: writing
Any decent writer writes because there’s some deep internal need to keep learning.
Stephen Jay Gould. The greatest science essayist of all time on evolution and the secret of storytelling in bittersweet 2000 interview. (via explore-blog and laviedelara)