Stephens Question - The Monday Morning Memo

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Can you ask the Wizard a question for me?
You know how the Wizard says to become a better writer you should read really well written books. I stubbled across another idea along these lines. I have the version of Zoom where it records the meeting and creates a transcript. Reading transcripts of actual real life dialogue is fascinating. We repeat words, finish other peoples sentences, and forget about grammar. Do you think the Wizard would agree that reading these real life transcripts will make for better dialogue?

“The thing about the systematic reduction of a woman down to her parts is that she doesn’t always know it’s happening while it’s going on. Just one day she wakes up and realizes that all she was was a face, a line of cleavage, two legs, a couple of hands, the swivel of her pelvis, the swell of her breast. We were just the disembodied parts in the display cases. One day we wake up to find out that the diamonds were never chocolate at all; they were brown the whole time. And our bodies, which are finally ours again, can move on all we want, though they forever remain a library of our lives — of the hurt and the shame, and of what we either allowed or didn’t allow other people to get away with.”

- Taffy Brodesser-Akner, The New York Times, April 23, 2019

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