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Left-Brain Gumbo
Tom McCranie
Occasional musings of how a left-brain thinker expands his right-brain abilities

Because of a few, engineers have a reputation for being practical, down-to-earth people–they just inhabit an earth of their own. Using technical terms incomprehensible to the layperson, the so-called-typical engineer will tell you in excruciating and minute detail numerous nugatory characteristics of a screw that fell out of your eye glasses (which he will call spectacles).

I suspect the learned (left brain) characteristic of going into detail, has helped with my writing because I tend to provide enough description of events and things to allow the reader visualize what I am writing about. I am honing that ability–just as I honed my mathematical abilities–by practice, practice, practice.

Tagged as: writing practice, writing rituals, writing truth

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