Because I am writing and only thinking about writing, two writing-related links:
* Jeffrey Eugenides on writing his new novel, and specifically his decision to put aside most of a book that wasn't working in order to pursue an idea he liked. May we all have that courage and the superabundance of good material.
* On manual notetaking. I know I am old because this remains a vital part of my process: read, think about what I've read to organize it, write down what I have, manually write out a schematic of how the whole thing is supposed to fit together, write down the citations I want for each section. Only then do I turn to my computer to actually write the whole thing up. Though I have tried, I can't really automate the earlier processes on the computer, which is fine by me.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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