Writing Edition

I’ve been working my way through an educational textbook on voice by Dona J. Hickey, now long out-of-print published back in 1993 by Mayfield Publishing Company. I found it used from someplace and am going through the book again for the second time. It’s fascinating stuff. It focuses mostly on speech melodies, rhetorical usage, low… Read more »

Confession: I still believe I can multi-task when countless experts have said it’s terrible for output. (Cal Newport’s DEEP WORK moved me to disavow some of my more insidious multi-tasking behaviors.) But I’ve always done things my own way and am loathe to change habits that make me happy, as multi-tasking and distracting as they… Read more »

I’m nearly halfway through the #100dayproject and so last week’s blog post became process time. In 20203 I’m working hard to create three habits: 1) process time, 2) project time, and 3) self-care time. Getting each of these habits into place stresses me out some days. Of course it does, since I’m training my brain…. Read more »

Something’s come up during essay class. Another misbelief. Which if you look back at previous posts, you’ll see these are false ideas that other people have often laid on you and that you have accepted as part of reality, even if you disagree. Or misbeliefs are something you’ve decided are true, when in fact, they’re… Read more »

I keep repeating myself on this blog. But a lot of my goals in 2023 are about my process. Life gets moving so fast and we all have too much email and overflowing todo lists and I am determined to have something else to talk about in my life. Work is work. But life is… Read more »