Everyday Life Narratives
I choose to write about the things that are most important to me in a narrative style that emphasizes story and everyday life. These topics include family, pedagogy, teaching, theology, communication, higher education, and medicine as well as their intersections.
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Directly, or indirectly, everything we write is for someone.
WHY IS THIS SO TRUE (via blakebaggott)
Its not really plagiarism as it was exactly what I was going to write anyway.
I really think I probably never would have written this book if I hadn’t been in medical school. In some ways, there was a thrill to writing, in the sense that I wasn’t supposed to be doing it.
Daniel Mason, physician and author
When people ask me which I would rather give up, writing or medicine, it’s like being asked which eye I’d prefer to have poked out with a spoon: neither, and please use a fork.
Chris Adrian, physician and author
(via weareallstories)
Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
Nadine Gordimer (via writersrelief)
(via weareallstories)
A very nice essay on perspectives!
The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.
Edwin Schlossberg, writer
While medicine creates material for writing, perhaps even more important is that it also creates a psychological and emotional need to write.
Daniel Mason, physician and author
Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
Anton Chekhov, physician and writer
