July 3, 2018
A Writer’s Misadventures in Writing
Sure, sometimes writing is a many-splendored thing, but sometimes it sucks. There are always the half-finished manifestos, the botched verbal symphonies, the sleepless nights staring at a computer, more insomniac […]
June 25, 2018
Staging a Coup Against Writer’s Block
Although I often suffer from its opposite, verbal diarrhea—that most unfortunate state in which mediocre words indiscriminately pour forth–no writer is a stranger to the dreaded squeak of the brain […]
November 12, 2014
Dr. Murphy, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Writing Abstracts
Abstract is a misleading name for an abstract, for an abstract should not be abstract. Today, I will write an abstract for my next conference paper, and it feels a […]
December 15, 2011
Mix Tape: Popular Muses
Check out the How a Poem Happens blog. In the latest post, John Drury talks about inspiration. “Yes, I like being ambushed by memory and imagination, and I do what […]