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Episode #126: Me, Myself and I - The Transformative Power of Reflection in Nonfiction
In this episode, Me, Myself and I, author Juliet Patterson explores artistic transformation through reflection. We often think about the tool of reflection in writing as a mode of thought or tone of voice we employ when we ruminate, meditate, contemplate or explain—in short, when we provide what Phillip Gerard calls, “finished thought.”
But we might also think about reflection as a turning, as a sometimes distorting, but transformational power. In this talk, we’ll look briefly at four qualities of reflection that might encourage artistic transformation in our writing and try some short exercises that will give you some practical tools to “think” about yourself differently on the page.
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This talk was originally given on July 23, 2019 in the Phillips Auditorium on the University of Iowa campus.