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An Architect Aims for Creativity and Discovers Writing

To refine her skills as an architect, Nicole Voss went searching for the meaning of creativity. What she found was writing.
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From Writer to Filmmaker, and Back Again

Stephen Newton shares his path from world of fiction to documentary film making. Stories told with the permission, and earned trust, of the films' subjects.
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Creativity is the Human Condition

Throughout the majority of humanity’s existence, creativity has been regarded as a mystical enigma. Architect and architecture critic Robert Furneaux Jordan asserted that “to comprehend [creativity] fully would be to be God. We can never comprehend God.” Thanks to this prevailing opinion, it wasn’t until the late 1940s that the study of creativity even started down the path toward legitimacy. In the seven decades since, the psychological and neurological basis of creativity has been fully extracted from the occult and shown to be ingrained in our species.
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Making It Up

My mother was a great reader of romances. Not the classic kind. The sort that make money. In my far-back childhood in the last century, reading a book was still a usual way to pass time.
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Parts of Me: Reflections on Reviewing The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

In this Writer's Journey essay, Carol Ann Wilson shares how, in reading and reviewing The 1619 Project, she also uncovers "parts of a bigger me to be discovered and explored."
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Never Gonna Give It Up

I guess I am a lesson in never giving up. I’m almost 70 (well, I just turned 69 so 70 is a year away – still seems like almost). I…
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It's a London thing
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It’s a London thing

Ever find yourself rolling your eyes when you hear that phrase ‘back in the day’? As often as not uttered by some grisled cynic bemoaning the loss of an older…
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On Telling a Fractal: Parsing Patterns in My Prose

When you look at a mathematical fractal, you see self-similarity; not only do different parts of the figure look almost alike, it looks the same as you zoom in and out of it, its form governed by the parameters of the iterative algorithm that generates it. Can narratives similarly iterate by filling time rather than space, recapitulating condensed or expanded versions of events and examples of themes?
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Tell Me a Fractal
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Tell Me a Fractal

Think of a snowflake forming around a molecule of water clinging to a tiny particle of something, how it blossoms and diverges as other molecules join in, seeking their hexagonal destiny, becoming a perfect thing of beauty. Then think of it melting, its sharp edges blurring, its interstices blotting out until it plops to earth. That’s a story, right there, in full surround. Matter, space and time at play.
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The End of the Beginning

Building the Structural Foundation When I write, I have a plot sketched out in my mind and sometimes laying out the groundwork can be laborious and even boring. It’s essential,…
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To refine her skills as an architect, Nicole Voss went searching for the meaning of creativity. What she found was writing. 6 1
Stephen Newton shares his path from the world of fiction to documentary film making. Stories told with the permission, and earned trust, of the films" subjects. 3 0
"In my childhood, it wasn’t unusual for the crashed remains of fighter planes to be unearthed by farm activity. The fascination of that endurance of past events in the landscape informs my work, I think, in part because I enjoy the notion of the reversal that Garner so brilliantly demonstrated. People think they shape the land. But the land shapes them. Though I’m sure that anyone from an indigenous community reading that would think it was no great insight." - Mark Wagstaff 2 0
'Throughout the majority of humanity’s existence, creativity has been regarded as a mystical enigma. Architect and architecture critic Robert Furneaux Jordan asserted that “to comprehend [creativity] fully would be to be God. We can never comprehend God.” Thanks to this prevailing opinion, it wasn’t until the late 1940s that the study of creativity even started down the path toward legitimacy. In the seven decades since, the psychological and neurological basis of creativity has been fully extracted from the occult and shown to be ingrained in our species.' 8 0
"I write about equity and social justice, just maybe because I want to love this world and I want it—I want us, the people of the world, to treat each other better, or at least move closer to trying. I write about equity and social justice because I spent forty-plus years trying to address it through our educational system, and I don't want to waste the insight I've gained. Loving the world means seeing it as it is and as it might be and doing what I can—which is, now, to write." 3 0
- Viet Thanh Nguyen, Commencement speech @fandmcollege, May 2022. 3 0

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Originally created as a Featured Writers section on bookscover2cover, we decided that writers and poets needed their own site. Thus, The Write Launch, a subsidiary of bookscover2cover, LLC, was born. The Write Launch is a monthly literary magazine that publishes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by selected writers and poets. Visit thewritelaunch.com and read original work by talented writers and poets from around the world.
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