How to write when you have no idea what to write
Writing is good, right? If you do it, it means you’re a writer. If you don’t, it means you’re…
Writing Tips
How copying others’ writing can improve your own
I’m a big fan of copying others’ work in order to learn how to do something new, or do…
The impossible task: “Deep blogging” on the go
There are many reasons I’ve written so little on this website, chief of which is that I simply can’t…
The writer’s relationship with time
Yesterday, I came across a letter that Charles Dickens wrote to Maria Winter in 1855—a woman with whom Dickens…
Delete: A writer’s best friend
In May 2010, I was 10,000 words shy of completing a 40,000 word dissertation that would culminate in an…