Blogs about Writing

The law of conservation of energy says that, within a closed system, energy cannot be created or destroyed: only converted from one form of energy to another. In 2023 - a year filled with personal …

In today’s newsletter, I write about the new Cindy Lee triple album, Diamond Jubilee: [It] isn’t streaming — you can only listen to it, officially, via a YouTube video or by downloading the WAV files …

Erasure poem taken from Tracing the Lines Magazine

An excerpt from The Sky Was Ours by Joe Fassler A man stepped into the barn. It wasn’t the boy I’d seen at the tower. This person was older, though it was hard to say …

Over in Every, I wrote about how writing is more than a method for capturing ideas, it’s a way of exploring them: By externalizing your thoughts, writing puts you into conversation with yourself. It’s always …

In which I embark on a quixotic quest to make a physical book using web rendering technology.

I have a bunch of things in my drafts that I ought to push out, but what’s on my mind right now is Murderbot. Martha Wells’ Murderbot Diaries are a melange of novellas, short stories, …

It's been a quiet start to the year here on the blog, with almost a quarter of it now gone already and nothing said.That's mostly because it has been a quiet time writing-wise - although …

I had a question from a commenter about where to buy Nolty planners, and I realized it was probably time to recap this topic, since some of my older posts aren’t up to date on …

We’ve revised our graduate seminar in the history of rhetoric away from its focus on classical rhetoric. (Here’s a version from ten years ago.) I’m very happy with the revisions: it’s now a course very …

Michael Kerr joins me on the podcast to chat about the transformation of travel media from storytelling to a more utilitarian approach driven by the internet and market forces, the current trends in travel books …

I have a story set in the modern day with supernatural traces, with three characters: a young boy, his bio dad, and his adoptive dad. The boy and his bio dad are Indian, the adoptive …