Not of General Interest

At the Daily Beast, via Tenured Radical  and Saved by History , Anthony Grafton (whom I know only through his comments at Historiann's...

I know it seems all tech tips and web-o-matic writing inspiration (but it does work) around here lately. The thing is, I've been spendin...

Our family used to have a dog that did this: If she didn't want to acknowledge the presence of something she was afraid of, like a cat o...

Pack, get up at the crack of dawn, travel, work on something else entirely, return, wash clothes. Repeat that a couple of times and it does...

Profacero has a post up about writing and time. While I agree with most of what she says, I can't completely go the distance on this on...

Historiann has a good post up about finding " teh funny" in what she's writing about and how that's a problem right now: B...

Reverb10 now has a prompt I can answer, about lessons learned this year. Dr. Crazy has an introspective and interesting post up about this;...

A lot of bloggers are doing the reverb10 challenge right now (see sidebar). The challenge is to write a blog post based on a prompt every da...

Over at The Chronicle, The Shadow Scholar has been getting more than his 15 minutes of fame for cheerfully admitting that he makes a good l...

Tenured Radical has an interesting post up about her travails in getting the paper copy of The New York Times delivered early enough to re...

I don't talk about him much on this blog (partly because I don't have a clever name for him), but Spouse is also in a writing profes...

I'm still talking about the writing process because I don't want to think about all the "end of tenure" arguments going on...

with apologies to Yeats Self (editor): "Those paragraphs have to be trimmed. They're upsetting the whole balance of the piece....