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The apparent paradox that if stars were distributed uniformly throughout an infinite universe, the sky would be as bright at night as in the daytime, owing to the fact that whilst the apparent brightness of individual stars decreases with the square of the distance, the number of stars increases in the same proportion.
The paradox is resolved by the observation that distant stars are of finite age, and recede from the observer as the universe expands.
Further reading: Scott Chase
Writing is not just about placing one word after another. Neither are those words just to be placed to give you a grammatically correct sentence. The hope is that those grammatically correct sentences, formed from words placed one after another, also convey great ideas in the best form possible. That is what constitutes great writing.
This constant urge to create something out of nothing can be a powerful driving force. Much of my writing career has been shaped, and I suspect will be shaped, by this urge. Now, Gary Klein’s The Remarkable Way We Gain Insights has given me just the perfect phrase to capture this mindset — creative desperation.
Klein uses the term in a different sense. He uses it as part of a model that may help us “change our story”. For me, creative desperation has chiseled out a story.
Akshat Rathi 