Concept

The rant and the meditation

Two real writing voices, the calm aphorism and the profane run-on. The signature is the balance between them.

What it is

Some writers have two true voices. The meditation is controlled and aphoristic. The rant is profane, insistent, run-on, sometimes in all caps.

Pure meditation reads like a sermon delivered from above. Pure rant spends authority faster than it builds it. Neither alone is the voice. The signature is the ratio between them, and it has to be renegotiated in every piece.

How it shows up for me

This is my writing problem in one entry. I want to sound like someone down here in the mud with everyone else, writing to help people thrive in a muddy world, not like a guru. So I keep both voices, and I keep adjusting the mix.

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