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Quality does not scale | Concentric Dialogue
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Let Us Introduce Ourselves. Archive of Our Dialogues. Giving voice to clarity in community. Quality does not scale. July 12, 2014. Mdash; 1 Comment. Dealing with expectations, we’re always confronted by them. They are coupled to, if not driven by habit, by conditioning. It’s here in our intention to have weekly conversations. 8220;Of course intention has weight, have I no will? Ah, yes, but. Quality is a perception of subtlety, of the interconnectedness of everything at a texture finer than we can percei...
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Interview, Dateline Provincetown – Carving Out Stories
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Interview, Dateline Provincetown. May 27, 2012. February 19, 2016. Jim Brosseau, host of. Interviewed me about my writing. Dateline Provincetown: An Interview with Antonio Dias. We talk about writing. And I read a short excerpt and a poem,. Click to share on Google (Opens in new window). Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window). Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window). Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window). Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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Writing Embodiment, When the point is not escape… – Carving Out Stories
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Writing Embodiment, When the point is not escape. September 30, 2012. February 19, 2016. We all know what fiction is. What it’s for. Fiction is a story with an arc. We start here and bad shit happens and we end up there. Either the hero triumphs and it’s a comedy or a drama, or the hero fails and its either comedy or tragedy. We know what a failed novel is. It doesn’t point us sharply in a single direction and then rush us along to a conclusion. What if we are writing about embodiment? Paradox is a sign ...
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Introducing November, a mystery… – Carving Out Stories
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Introducing November, a mystery. February 2, 2013. February 19, 2016. November, a mystery. This new novel is beginning to come together. It is a departure from. And my previous work. It is an exploration of the intertwining mysteries of writing, action, and how we puzzle out what to do in face of a future we cannot predict. Here is a short excerpt:. Sounds like the biggest, most audacious trump ever! It’s a wonder you don’t get hit more often than you do! Gordon reached across the table. His hands se...
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A conversation on Fiction, or a fictional conversation… – Carving Out Stories
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A conversation on Fiction, or a fictional conversation. September 21, 2012. February 19, 2016. Have you ever wished, after a good long talk, you had thought to record it? Talking about writing this noon with a good friend and careful reader and solid writer too! We talked about the conversations involved in writing fiction. That is a question related to who we are conversing with and how we do it. Projection. It’s not just in the movies! 8221; Then sometimes they don’t. Then sometimes they do, ...8221; S...
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“What’s the point?!” | Concentric Dialogue
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Let Us Introduce Ourselves. Archive of Our Dialogues. Giving voice to clarity in community. 8220;What’s the point? September 16, 2014. Mdash; Leave a comment. Well The point is. As soon as I’ve said these three words I hesitate, there is a moment where doubt enters into the stream of my thoughts and I ask myself “What. 8221; This can set in motion a chain reaction which turns thought against itself in an endless series of questions about the validity, correctness or coherence of what I am trying to get at.
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Inspiration and Accumulation – Carving Out Stories
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January 1, 2013. February 19, 2016. JDG: I wonder if you could say more about how you see this process of how smaller stories grow into a larger, coherent narrative? SB: I’m not sure it can be very simply defined. But to me it’s predominantly about inspiration, and a process of accumulation. This exchange comes from Jeppe Dyrendom Graugaard’s interview with Sharon Blackie. Part of his ongoing series, research for his doctoral thesis. New stories, as Sharon. Points out, cannot be force-fed to us. They...
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