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the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2019.04.05

I took an online survey of my character strengths. It said, "None." Man.

Here are my top results:

character strengths
I love to learn

Here are the worst of my character deficiencies.

character deficiencies
I have no ways to make you laugh

Looking at the categories I'm apparently interested in wisdom but not transcendence.

rand()m quote

Remove everything that has no relevance to the story. If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there.

—Anton Chekhov