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January 24, 2026 Weaving and Atarraya II, Day 4: Editing with a Pencil
January 24, 2026 Weaving and Atarraya II, Day 3: Cutting and Shortening
January 23, 2026 Weaving and Atarraya II, Day 2: Re-Reading
January 21, 2026 Weaving and Atarraya II, Day 1: My Comittment
January 19, 2026 On “Writing a Journal Article in Twelve Weeks”: Or, on finishing the God Damn Book
December 28, 2025 Slow Down
December 26, 2025 On rules, Tendon, and the Classroon
October 20, 2025 Weaving and Atarraya: A Diary of Book Making (20/31)
September 15, 2025 Weaving and Atarraya: A Diary of Book Making (19/31)
August 21, 2025 Weaving and Atarraya: A Diary of Book Making (18/31)
August 19, 2025 Weaving and Atarraya: A Diary of Book Making (17/31)
August 15, 2025 Weaving and Atarraya: A Diary of Book Making (16/31)
August 7, 2025 Weaving and Atarraya: A Diary of Book Making (15/31)
August 4, 2025 Weaving and Atarraya: A Diary of Book Making (14/31)
August 4, 2025 Weaving and Atarraya: A Diary of Book Making (13/31)
August 3, 2025 Making Fichero: A Diary of App Making (1/31)
August 2, 2025 Weaving and Atarraya: A Diary of Book Making (12/31)
August 1, 2025 Weaving and Atarraya: A Diary of Book Making (11/31)
August 1, 2025 Weaving and Atarraya: A Diary of Book Making (10/31)
July 31, 2025 Weaving and Atarraya: A Diary of Book Making (9/31)
July 29, 2025 Weaving and Atarraya: A Diary of Book Making (8/31)
July 27, 2025 Weaving and Atarraya: A Diary of Book Making (7/31)
July 25, 2025 Weaving and Atarraya: A Diary of Book Making (6/31)
July 25, 2025 Weaving and Atarraya: A Diary of Book Making (5/31)
July 23, 2025 Weaving and Atarraya: A Diary of Book Making (4/31)
July 23, 2025 Weaving and Atarraya: A Diary of Book Making (3/31)
July 20, 2025 Weaving and Atarraya: A Diary of Book Making (2/31)
July 20, 2025 Weaving and Atarraya: A Diary of Book Making (1/31)
July 19, 2025 789 Serialized: A Newsletter
July 10, 2025 Fichero Update and Working Towards 0.1.0-dev
June 27, 2025 Writer’s Diary #58: Getting Back to It
May 28, 2025 fichero_director.py: Running Fichero on Multiple Processors
May 15, 2025 Morning Pages
April 16, 2025 pdf_splitr.py
April 5, 2025 wordwright.py
March 18, 2025 Writer’s Diary #57: A Room, A Purse, and No Phone?
March 17, 2025 Writer’s Diary #56: A room of One's Own
March 16, 2025 Writer’s Diary #55: Just do it
March 5, 2025 In Praise of Makeshift Finishing
March 5, 2025 University Bureaucracies as the Death of Play: The 1968 Strax Affair and the Arts of Discombobulation
March 5, 2025 University Bureaucracies as the Death of Play: The 1968 Strax Affair and the Arts of Discombobulation
March 5, 2025 Dismantling the Post-War Liberal World Order
March 5, 2025 Twitter/X.com and Social Media
February 15, 2025 Writer’s Diary #51: In Praise of Mellel
January 3, 2025 Scheduling a syllabus
January 2, 2025 iPad Mini + Tailscale + Screens + Better Display = Relibale screen sharing to MacBook
December 22, 2024 Writing Diary #53: Cleanup Reepeated Text
December 18, 2024 dejatext.py
December 7, 2024 Writer’s Diary #52: Repeated Words
November 15, 2024 NaNoWriMo Update #4: Artisinal Writing
November 13, 2024 NaNoWriMo Update #3: Zonked by Words
November 5, 2024 NaNoWriMo Update #2
November 4, 2024 NaNoWriMo Update #1
November 3, 2024 Writer’s Diary #51: NaNoWriMo
October 23, 2024 q_transcribe.py
October 20, 2024 Writer’s Diary #50: Become a Writer
October 19, 2024 Writer’s Diary #49: Digital Workshops
October 17, 2024 Writer’s DIary #48: Writing is also thinking about writing
October 15, 2024 Writer’s Diary #47: Reading
October 13, 2024 Writer’s Diary #46: Structur.py
October 13, 2024 structur.py
October 12, 2024 Writer’s Diary #45: Writing on the Weekend
October 12, 2024 Writer’s Diary #44: Departure Mono
July 22, 2024 Writer’s Diary #43: Tinderbox 10 and the Guadi View
June 25, 2024 In Praise of Laziness
June 7, 2024 Multi-Column Text Editor on Mac?
May 30, 2024 Notes on Running #3: Aîka
May 30, 2024 Writer’s Diary #42: Steady Improvements in Tinderbox
May 18, 2024 Rules for Writing #2: Delaying
May 17, 2024 Rules for Writing #1: Success
May 16, 2024 Writer’s Diary #41: Rules, for a Month's Writing
May 3, 2024 Notes on Running #2: Slow and Steady
May 2, 2024 Notes on Running #1: Hold Back
May 2, 2024 Colombia Jottings #1: How to Eat a Mostly Whole-Food, Plant-Based Diet in Rural Colombia
April 27, 2024 Writer’s Diary #40: Makeshift Writing
April 23, 2024 Writer’s Diary #39 – Small Victories
April 22, 2024 Writer’s Diary #38 – Don’t Forget to Breathe
August 15, 2023 Writer’s Diary #37 – Writing is Hard: Develop a Writing Practice
August 10, 2023 Writer’s Diary #36 – Deep Writing
August 2, 2023 Writer’s Diary #35 – Craft Work, Detail Work, Steady Work
August 1, 2023 Writer’s Diary #34 – Stop while the stopping is good
July 31, 2023 Writer’s Diary #33 – Emergent structure, or work more; think less
July 31, 2023 Writer’s Diary #32 – Creating Structure/Finding Structure
July 28, 2023 Writer’s Diary #31 – Summer Doldrums, Writing, and Napping
July 27, 2023 Writer’s Diary #30 – Retyping as a Way into a Text
July 24, 2023 Writer's Diary #29 – Large Language Models as Writing Assistants and First Readers?
July 22, 2023 Writer’s Diary #28 – Anthropic's Claude-2-100K
July 21, 2023 Writer’s Diary #27 – Four Hour Work Day?
July 20, 2023 Writer’s Diary #26: Kayaking, writing, and hiking
July 19, 2023 Writer’s Diary #25 – Over coming the Blahs
July 18, 2023 Writer’s Diary #24: A 21st Century Typewriter
July 17, 2023 Writer’s Diary #23: Fragments as Stories
July 17, 2023 Writer’s Diary #22: Crafting ‘Stone by Stone’
July 15, 2023 Writer’s Diary #21 – Yesterday, a good day. Why?
July 14, 2023 Writer's Diary #20 – The Hard Part can be Everything but the Writing
July 13, 2023 Writer’s Diary #19 – Morning Choice
July 11, 2023 Writer’s Diary #18: Elizabeth Gilbert on Elusive Genius
July 5, 2023 Writer’s Diary #17: On Naps
July 5, 2023 Writer’s Diary #16 – Everything is a cut up
July 3, 2023 Writer’s Diary #15: Programming Challenge: Ordering a book of fragments?
July 3, 2023 Writer’s Diary #14: Wait, Slow Down, You Move Too Fast
June 30, 2023 Writer’s Diary #13: Make Writing Fun, Again?
June 29, 2023 Writer’s Diary #12: Finishing a Draft
June 28, 2023 Writer’s Diary #11: The Synapses of Writing
June 26, 2023 Writer's Diary #10: Writing is like Flying, You have to throw yourself at the ground and miss
June 26, 2023 Writer’s Diary #09: On Freewriting a First Draft
June 21, 2023 Writer’s Diary #08: Notes on Becoming a Writer
June 20, 2023 Writer’s Diary #07: On Starting
June 19, 2023 Writer’s Diary #06: Writing and Routine
June 10, 2023 Writer’s Diary #05: Write every day, maybe not?
June 9, 2023 Writer’s Diary #04: Getting Back on the Bus
June 8, 2023 Writer’s Diary #03: Linking Habits
June 8, 2023 Writer’s Diary #02: About Nutgrafs
June 7, 2023 Writer’s Diary #01: Feathering Your Nest
June 6, 2023 The Challenge of Ultra-Processed Food
April 29, 2023 In Praise of Trains
December 22, 2021 Write in public, or on publishing before you’re ready
May 5, 2021 The Buzz Phase of Resource Extraction: Liquefied Natural Gas in Kitimat, British Columbia
December 13, 2020 Letter to Prospective Students
December 11, 2020 Why I Suck at Email and Social Media
November 18, 2019 Peak Conference? Let’s Hope So
May 18, 2019 In Praise of Small Places
September 17, 2018 It’s Anthropologies, not Anthropology
April 20, 2017 Self Help for Writers