On Writing

Here’s a collection of the posts that touch on writing more generally, beyond work that I’ve completed.

(Note: when I redesigned my website, my “categories” didn’t match the new structure, so it will take some time to finalize this list…)

  • What I’m reading: Montaigne’s Essays

    Cover of third volume of Essais

    Who’d have thought a sixteenth-century Frenchman could seem so contemporary?

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  • Pet peeve: Introductions

    "Ugh" written in the margin of an introduction.

    I hate introductions. I know; that first sentence is an introduction. It’s probably inevitable, since every essay has to start somewhere.

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  • Whence “Oh, ick”?

    License Plate that says Oh Ick

    I’ve had the same license plate for something like 25 years—on my last five vehicles, at least. OH ICK. It still sums things up perfectly.

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  • Lessons from the Skinner box: False metrics and the beginning blogger

    Schedule of reinforcement pigeion

    My blog is a Skinner box.

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  • The why and what of ohick.com

    Parody of Magritte, in French: This is not a writer, with pic of Greg Kemble

    If someone were to tell me, “I’m a writer,” and I were to say, “Cool! What do you write?” and he were to say, “Well, I don’t, really,” I’d have grounds to be suspicious of his claim.

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