The successful memoirist [blogger] respects facts, uses them accurately, rigorously represses the human impulse to lie or embellish, … - Bill Roorbach

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By 'expecting nothing' you are not 'giving up. ' Far from it! You are making a decision to focus on what needs to be done rather than on outcomes.

Bill Roorbach

The successful memoirist [blogger] respects facts, uses them accurately, rigorously represses the human impulse to lie or embellish, but knows that truth is both different from facts and greater than facts, and not always their sum.

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When a new writer defends his "style," the teacher smiles (or cringes) because real style isn't an artifice. Real style - voice - arrives on its own, as an extension of a writer's character. When style is done self-consciously and purposefully it becomes affectation, and as transparent as any affectation - an English accent on an old college chum from New Jersey, for example.

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It's all written out, you know. Everything is fate. All written out in Heaven, or written out in Hell.

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By 'expecting nothing' you are not 'giving up. ' Far from it! You are making a decision to focus on what needs to be done rather than on outcomes.

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