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Notice how language, structure and voice steer a reader's attention.

Our point of view

Attention beats automatic admiration

Creative work becomes easier to discuss when we name what it does and how it does it. Lively Arts Journal looks for choices, not secret meanings or easy verdicts.

  1. Negative Space Is Part of the Picture
  2. First Person or Close Third: What Each Viewpoint Can Reveal
  3. Before the Conductor’s Baton: How Ensembles Kept Time

Why we look closely