In my last post on writing a book, which was way more than the promised one week ago, I shared how Elon Musk once likened starting a business to “eating glass and staring into the abyss of death.” Writing a book, I reported, hadn’t been quite that colorful yet. And then the next couple of […]
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On Writing a Book, Part 1: The Same Aims
First, let me say thank you for caring to read my posts on writing. Feel free to ask me anything about the process in the comments section. Five years of blogging while teaching and teaching while blogging have taught me that it’s not my calling to write the next mega-edu-website with the latest fancy design […]
Temporary Changes at DaveStuartJr.com
I’m going to stop blogging* for the rest of 2017. Let me explain. For the past two years, I’ve published articles regularly on this blog. There was one month where I published three posts per week (August, 2015), one month where I didn’t publish at all (December, 2015), and one month where I published once per […]
Setting a Summer Reading Project
In my last post, I suggested that there’s a time to take on no new reading at all, instead setting one’s course for the full exploration of a single book. I did this five years ago or so with Mike Schmoker’s Focus, and much of the subsequent blogging and teaching I’ve done (including the development of […]
No More (New) Reading
“I can’t imagine a man enjoying a book and reading it only once.” — C. S. Lewis It’s getting on summer time, and if you’re at all like me, then you’ve got an unreasonably high stack of books that you want to tear into between now and when school starts back up. Before you get […]