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…)
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RIP, Anton
His novels aren’t among my favorites, and he wasn’t the greatest interviewer I’ve ever heard. But Anton Strout was the easily the most important author in my development as a writer. I was sad to learn that he died yesterday.
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The best, etc., of 2019
Not that it makes any difference, really — the year was what it was, and no amount of whining will change that — but I’m not a big fan of 2019.
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Arrogance, fear, and the fixed mindset
I started this blog to encourage myself to write. So far: not a lot of progress on that front.
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What I’m reading: Montaigne’s Essays
Who’d have thought a sixteenth-century Frenchman could seem so contemporary?
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Pet peeve: Introductions
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”?
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
My blog is a Skinner box.
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The why and what of ohick.com
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.