Writing is the only magic I still believe in: Jarred McGinnis at TEDxEaling
104K views · Nov 27, 2012 · Education
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@rosarebada4777 · 8 years ago
Ludwig Wittgenstein said, “To imagine a language is to imagine a form of life."
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@taliwoods · 6 years ago
Swear I’ve never seen or heard a classier man
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@farqadcj2675 · 9 years ago
"The curse of mortality is that we get one life, one point of view, at a single point in time at most. If we are lucky, we know a few languages to access the world and understand it. But writing cheats that"<br>Marvelous!
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@shadow12264 · 10 years ago
writing is magic
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@demongroovemusic · 9 years ago
His psychology told a story all of its own. Deep.
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@sarahjean9001 · 9 years ago
Good God I am in love with this man!
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@mracw21 · 8 years ago
He deserves his own TED talk, editing is the greatest enemies to a writer. How do you know when you're done yet? What dictates the characters reactions is by the previous 10 or 20,000 words. It's interesting how a fictional character can become real in the fictional setting.
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@kaitlynvalentine3153 · 10 years ago
I must offer my thanks to Jarred McGinnis. If it hadn't been for his words in this video i might have been stuck in one spot in my story for mounths if not years. Again i thank you sir.
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@karmensitta4536 · 8 years ago (edited)
A beautiful human being!
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@cotygv · 5 years ago (edited)
What a terrific talk! It made me want to keep writing more than before. I'm a wheelchair user too and aspirant from Argentina.
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@arlinegeorge6967 · 5 years ago
Very humbling. But society dictates. Writing is magic n live. Thank you, bless you. All your dreams come true.
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@alicehuijbregts · 6 years ago
This is so good, and so underrated
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