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Finally.
And your fans are assholes. Way to go, Elliot.
Stephen, read your email today…is this the way to ask a question? Took two of your seminars at Esalen…wondering per today’s writing, can you ever write too much honesty? Or is it always the personal decision of the writer and not to be judged….?
Since Esalen: Have splattered your thoughts around and spread them on the whiteboard to my college English class too!
Difficult question Mark. If you ask if there can ever be too much honesty and I answer the chance is we mean different things when we say honesty. It would be too easy to be misinterpreted in either direction.
Hi Stephen, I recall you saying something similar at Esalen, yet maybe we can start somewhere and find common ground. It depends what we mean, yes, and when you talked about honesty at Esalen, I was trying to ask the question in that context. I remember you saying something about making a choice on whether to write about someone (even yourself?), and that if you went ahead, then it would not be halfway, and that honesty is about not lying with intent. At the same time, my Russian friend tells me that when I reflect what he says to me, I get it half-wrong. In one seminar with Cheryl Strayed, I wrote about a secret that if published, could impact my employment, and with three young daughters, that has ramifications. So, how to write with obligations (like little kids who can read and employers who can react) while also wondering if my question is just an excuse for the mundane, or maybe the question is for my own pondering. Either way, I look forward to your emails and seeing you at another Sun retreat. I’ve passed along to my students ideas of filter, tension, strong sentences, honesty, and one back story-at-a-time, and I hope some of these will move through my own writing.
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