Unsolicited Writing Advice #001 ✏️

Egoless doesn’t mean "without personality". It means letting the current of experience carry the piece instead of your performance of self.

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This essay is pure food for anyone who writes, reads, or hoards favorite words.

Words: Pablo Neruda's Love Letter to Language www.themarginalian.org/2025/11/05/n...

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Many, if not most, of the essays we consider come from the mind of Maria Popova at www.themarginalian.org .
She has graciously given us permission to form this club so that we might use her work as a jumping off point for our own #deepthoughts.
A special thanks to Maria.

Posting an essay that hit a nerve today:

On why we cling to stasis and how to move with change instead of against it.

If you read it, I’d love to hear one line that stayed with you.

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Next Topic: In the category of questions that have gone unanswered since childhood: Where did money come from?

www.themarginalian.org/2022/09/02/m...

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Oh no. I forgot to announce.

ESSAY CLUB IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW!
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Join in! twitch.tv/beast2plate
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Essay Club has been a bit quiet lately--sorry about that! Life happened, but we're back and ready to do some more reading and discussing and vibing. Appreciate the patience.
Next meeting's topic is up!
See you soon!

Next topic: Balancing Intimacy and Independence in Love
Maria Popova’s “The Lily vs. the Eagle” 🌿🦅

Read the essay here: themarginalian.org/2025/01/29/d-h-lawrence-love/

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🚨 Time Update! 🚨

Our next Mostly Unofficial Essay Club meeting has been moved back an hour! 📚✨

🕒 New time: 4:30pm (instead of 3:30pm)
🔎 We’ll be discussing David Barthelme's "The School"! 🎓
🎥 Join us on Twitch twitch.tv/beast2plate🌟

Hope to see you there#LiteraryDiscussiono#TwitchCommunityty

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We are about to enter an era of extreme and dangerous culture war in the United States. How do we protect our communities and work toward a cultural ceasefire? In this piece I wrote a couple months ago, I offer one possible path. wapo.st/40q1BDn

Ok #booksky, let’s talk.

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📅 Next meeting is rescheduled: Wednesday, January 20 at 3:30pm! 🕚 We’ll be reading David Barthelme's "The School" – a total genre shift from The Marginalian, so hold on to your teacups ☕! #ReadingCommunity #LiteratureDiscussion #ReadingTogether #LiteraryCommunity

I'm so sorry crew! I've lost my voice due to an illness and am rescheduling our meeting for Wednesday afternoon.
I sincerely apologize and will do my best to rest up and make Wednesday the best meeting day possible.

📅 Next meeting: Monday, January 20 at 11am! 🕚 We’ll be reading David Barthelme's "The School" – a total genre shift from The Marginalian, so hold on to your teacups ☕! #ReadingCommunity #LiteratureDiscussion #CasualReading #ReadingTogether #LiteraryCommunity

🚨 What a great turnout for our accidental, impromptu 'Casual Discussion' on Twitch! 🎉 We discussed authors like Jeff Vandermeer (The Strange Bird), Sunyi Dean (The Bookeaters), and Aldous Huxley (Brave New World)! 📚
#LiteratureDiscussion #JeffVandermeer #books #bookclub #EssayClub #TwitchBookClub

It's our FIRST MEETING! An orientation and quick discussion on "Some Blessings to Begin With" by Maria Popova.
twitch.tv/beast2plate