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Tuning Exercises are designed to clarify what is important to you today. They open space to mark the subtle or not subtle changes over time in your temperament, commitments, and sense of self as a writer.

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Pick up a book and read a paragraph. Then close the book and write a paragraph to follow it, trying to preserve something about the author’s way of being in language while simultaneously injecting it with a tiny shadow of a different way.

What does the exercise of inhabiting a different way tell you about your own?