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Mason Currey's "Inefficient and Glorious Research Process"
How he "skims, scans, and scribbles his way into the lives of writers and artists"
Apr 6
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P.S. How to Finish a Creative Project: A.A. Milne's Notes
"I like writing, by which I mean that I like putting down certain words in a certain order.”
Mar 30
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Susan Sontag on Style: 5 Ideas From her Notebooks
"Form is...a springboard to get height from, not a table to which you’re strapped"
Mar 9
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Susan Sontag's Playground of Ideas
"I strive to compose myself..."
Mar 2
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P.S. Inside Emily Brontë's Writing Desk
"Wuthering Heights was hewn in a wild workshop, with simple tools, out of homely materials."
Feb 23
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The Brontës' Scribble Mania
"…scarcely one chapter had escaped a pen-and-ink commentary."
Feb 9
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Re-Noted: Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Wide World"
"Make your own Bible. Select & Collect all those words & sentences that in all your reading have been to you like the blast of a trumpet out of…
Dec 29, 2025
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Glinda, the Good Witch's Notes
"The witch was in reality the profoundest thinker..."
Nov 24, 2025
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P.S. The Grimm Brothers' Most Shocking Edits
"Then with both hands he took hold of his left foot and ripped himself up the middle in two."
Oct 30, 2025
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The Brothers Grimm and the Notes that Saved Our Fairy Tales
"It was perhaps just the right time to record these tales since those people who should be preserving them are becoming more and more scarce."
Oct 27, 2025
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P.S. 5 Tips for Revision Inspired by Walt Whitman
"...untie the bundle, reel out diary-scraps and memoranda, just as they are..."
Oct 2, 2025
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Walt Whitman's Fragmented Process
"For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you"
Sep 29, 2025
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