Describe a positive thing a family member has done for you.
When it comes to any endeavor that one wishes to excel, there comes the great matter of how one achieves such excellence. It is, unfortunately, an infrequent matter that a man would find himself among the greats, a virtuoso, without first being humbled by the violent criticisms of his peers.
This brings me to my brother. Both a man of great knowledge and great jocularity, he is the publisher of a plethora of writings. A creative man, a man of much reading, and also a man of science. I am fortunate enough to have in him not only a brother, but a friend and a critic. If you are interested in the wonderful worlds of fiction and games, which he is most apt to report on, you can visit him here.
I, unlike my brother, am not a man of education. I have learned, not through schooling, but through unfocused, often spastic research into a plethora of topics that have achieved an incredible scope, with exceedingly shallow depth. This exceedingly shallow depth is reflected in my perceptions and evaluations of literature.
And thus, with the nature of writing, the nature of my brother, and the nature of myself put forth, I bring you to the purpose of this writing: to report on his good deed.
When I established this page, several years ago, I was directionless. I still am, to some extent. But recently, I’ve found a new desire to write, and I felt my website needed a bit of sprucing up. So I deleted most of it, and then requested my good friend’s advice, which he gave me.
“Dakota, my dear boy, this work is a mess. Why, you haven’t the slightest clue what you’re writing. Perchance, do better shall you?”
While I’m sure the intellectual was thinking such words, he gave me simple instruction. Adjust here, move there, focus on improving this. Simple kindness, in the form of critique.
What you see before you on the page is but a shallow representation of what (I am sure) he would see this humble blog become. Perhaps I will someday live up to his high hopes.
Little did he know, his gentle critique and humble nudges would result in his own featuring on my site.
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