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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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.