The Nonagenarian Novelist
by Priscilla Bettis https://twitter.com/PriscillaBettis
How long can we keep writing? Can we still write when we’re old, I mean really old, like 90 or 100? Some systems in the brain decline with age, and some improve with age, particularly those systems we use as writers. I’m reading a fascinating book I bought from Amazon called Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives. It’s about the elderly brain, and it’s written by a brilliant, Stanford-educated neuroscientist named Daniel J. Levitin.
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