The Daemon of Pen and Page

Dear Living Dark reader,

“What are you reaching for and aiming at in your reading and writing? What are you aching to find, understand, achieve, accomplish, or realize? How are they both, in the end—your daimon of the pen and daimon of the page—one and the same?”

That’s a snippet from Chapter Two of Writing at the Wellspring. I have previously shared the book’s introduction, conclusion, and first chapter. Today we continue with the second chapter.

In connection with this serialization of the book o...