Not of General Interest

[Sorry! I was trying to get rid of a dead link in this old post and it posted as a new one.]    The Washington Post has an article, "Th...

At the Chronicle, Katrina Gulliver has written the  "10 Commandments of Twitter" for those who want to break into this medium. Mos...

1. The Skinner box of the present is email. You press the bar, and out pops a new message; if it doesn't, you press it again, and again,...

The number of days that you go without actually writing something on your project equals the number of hours (one hour for each skipped day...

I started out this month with such hope. I would Write! Every! Day! and give myself stars for the days that I wrote, a la jo(e)'s stars ...

Excitement: I like what I'm writing now. I find it interesting, so interesting that my patient family has to listen to me talk about it....

It may not be exactly "starting over," but the poor book ms., abandoned in the flurry of MLA and associated paper-writing, not to ...

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...

I've been reading Clio Bluestocking's posts on writing with mingled envy and excitement about the process--envy (in a good way) beca...

With all due respect to Profacero , Dame Eleanor , Dr. Virago , and Jonathan at Prose Doctor , writing is not either * neither easy or fun r...

Some are jetting off to exotic climes like Blargistan or the Berks conference . Dame Eleanor , What Now , ADM , Dr. Koshary , and others a...

So, Tom, I've been working along here on this manuscript pretty intensively. When you said my argument was like nothing you had seen bef...

The first week of the "pay yourself" plan went pretty well. I finished the edits on an accepted article and got it sent back, made...

What I've been doing for the last week: reading other people's words. Reading student papers and expending good advice and ink upon ...

As this sabbatical winds down, I'm doing two things: 1. Obsessively checking the enrollment stats for next semester's courses. Here...

I think I first heard the term "slowcoach," as in "Slowcoach McClellan," in the sonorous tones of David McCullough . At ...

Not screaming, but writing. Not as in "I make writing wake UP!" but as in "I wake up early, about 4 a.m., and since that...

At the Chronicle , Mark Bauerlein is a little late to the party--he's just figured out that texting while driving might, just might, not...

For the next few days, I'll be in a different place (literally) and am trying to get to a different place figuratively with my writing. ...

Time Magazine, which I've been checking out of desperation as Newsweek becomes increasingly newsless, has one of its trademark scare ar...