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Eccentric: Writing Through The Lens Of Empathy, Steven M. Blacksmith
Eccentric: Writing Through The Lens Of Empathy, Steven M. Blacksmith
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In this essay, I detail my growth as a writer through different periods of empathic learning. I examine my childhood struggle to understand many common emotions and the ways in which I began to logically dissect and replicate them in life and in art. I further delve into this examination through my discovery of comedy and the lifelong process of understand the deep connections humans make with humor. I then discuss how my understanding of empathy allowed me to write my dissertation play, The Eccentrics, and create a world in which empathy among the characters can be a catalyst …