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Julie Snider's avatar

Rena, I’m so pleased to have discovered you and read this marvelous essay. Your writing is like the lighting you’ve described in the cathedral—one color from behind, another straight ahead. I,too, believe in including contradictions in my prose. Thanks for the juicy, descriptive language and for the encouragement to keep doing that myself. If you’re interested, you might like to check out my latest post devoted entirely to contradictions. https://open.substack.com/pub/juliesniderauthor126/p/accepting-lifes-contradictions?r=3zlo8c&utm_medium=ios

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Michael Horvich's avatar

Sounding trite, they tell authors to show not tell. You do that so well that I was back in Barcelona again, the last time being 2008. When I’m done writing this, I’m going to pull out my photos. Your writing suggestions were perfect. As I read the beginning of your piece, I was thinking, “ I should try writing like this.“ With your help, now I will. Thank you and fondly, Michael.

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