Thursday, November 18th, 2010
Mark Z at ZhurnalyWiki paid me the great honor of referring to my panic post. He ended with this thought: And of course there's my favorite strategy: try to identify what causes panic and avoid situations where it might arise. Sensible (and I think a little tongue-in-cheek) advice, though I ...
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Friday, July 17th, 2009
Thanks to the glory of Netflix, Liz and I saw this documentary that I can assure you never visited the Carolina Theatre. It's a bio-doc on the writer Harlan Ellison, 72 years old at the time of the movie's release in 2007, and covers an impressive sweep of his life, ...
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Sunday, March 29th, 2009
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I recently finished a pretty big, for me, literature review that totaled about 17 pages, including the title page and two pages of references. Here are some scattered thoughts and lessons learned, at my customarily hideous length:
I saw the wisdom of The Scholarly Cassidy's advice ...
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Saturday, February 21st, 2009
My previous post Fred Stutzman and Facebook reminded me of an essay from the May/August 2000 issue of North American Review.
The essay I tore out and kept in my "Essays" folder lo these many years was by the writer Norman Lavers, now retired from teaching English and enthusiastically maintaining ...
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Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
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One of the books I read over the Christmas vacation was Writing the Mind Alive, which one Amazon reviewer tags as the book to go to after freewriting has taken you as far it can. I used to write morning pages and still enjoy journaling, ...
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