What’s in an Opinion
“In my opinion,” people often argue, and then rarely stop to provide evidence. Opinions are cheap, certainly. As the saying goes, everyone has one. Even so, what is not commonly […]
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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, […]
The Book on Dating and Writing, part 1
General writing advice is probably as useful as general dating advice, though to be honest, I didn’t do much dating in high school. So I really can’t say much about it. […]