Pep Card: Day 23

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Real quick-like before I head out to workies!

Pep Card: Day 23

An anthropologist named Victor Turner added a new wrinkle to the discipline's canon in the 1950s when he wrote about the importance of something called limen. Translating roughly as "threshold", limen refers to those times like adolescence when we're caught between two life phases. In these neither-here-nor-there periods, he wrote, levels of energy and disorder both run high.

You're in a period of limen right now, novelist, and this week I recommend you heighten the energetic state by taking a field trip to a space such as an airport, hotel lobby, bus depot, or anywhere people are temporarily lodged in that fascinating space between departure and arrival.

Day 22 flashcard from the No Plot? No Problem! writing kit, the genius brainchild of Chris Baty.