There comes a time when you tick off everything on your revision to-do list and call the project "done." It's a moment of stunned exhilaration--a rush of excitement at crossing a self-determined finish line paired with a kind of disbelief that you made it. Though none...
What Do You Owe Your Readers?
In a word: Everything. Reading might be the single most intimate act you will experience with a stranger. When you open a book, you let a complete stranger into your most private space: your mind. Once there, this wordsmith sets up camp and creates words that conjure...
Dickens, Dreams, and Drafts
I was recently in London and spent a few nights in Bloomsbury not far from a house Charles Dickens lived in from 1837 to 1839. It was here where he completed The Pickwick Papers and wrote the complete manuscripts for Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickelby. His subsequent...
How it Feels to Finish a Project
There comes a time when you tick off everything on your revision to-do list and call the project "done." It's a moment of...
What Do You Owe Your Readers?
In a word: Everything. Reading might be the single most intimate act you will experience with a stranger. When you open a book,...
Dickens, Dreams, and Drafts
I was recently in London and spent a few nights in Bloomsbury not far from a house Charles Dickens lived in from 1837 to 1839....
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