General Writing Advice, part 3: Thesis and Outline

This past week, I helped to teach a workshop on writing at Azusa Pacific University. For four mornings, for four hours each morning, a colleague and I met with a group […]

Doubt

This week, I kept to a strict, almost religious writing schedule, writing every morning and avoiding interruptions until around noon. And I tried to keep the writing alive over the […]

General Writing Advice, part 2

To continue the discussion I began last week about general writing advice, I offer the following narrative, which concerns two suggestions: that we need to allow ourselves to write badly, […]