HeyJaredField Notes from a Restless Soul
Dispatches on romance, adventure, and the habits of living artfully and well.
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Field Note: Elusa (opens the original)
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Get a Life (opens the original)
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Write what you know. The advice is old, and the complaint against it is older: one is out of ideas—writer’s block and all.Writer’s block is not a writing problem or an idea problem.What you know is what you accumulate, whether or not you know at the time what it is for or when you will use it. Emily Dickinson accumulated a universe of ideas while rarely leaving her house in Amherst.Ideas run out for one of two reasons: too little experience, or too little attention.FirsthandIn 1956, a horse call
Sprezzatura (opens the original)
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I have been listening to The Book of the Courtier, Baldassare Castiglione’s great Renaissance dialogue about the qualities that make an ideal gentleman, or, more broadly, an ideal civilized person.It is a fascinating book, full of conversation about manners, dress, music, physical grace, learning, love, wit, and conduct. Thus far, I am struck by the sustained attention given to speech: what constitutes beautiful diction, what dialect is most graceful, which authorities one ought heed, and how a
Writing Requires Hospitality: (opens the original)
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The Nell Ainsworth Mystery Series (opens the original)
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