by Michael Lesiuk | Aug 10, 2012 | Writing Convolutes
I’m tempted to say this is true of any vocation. If you don’t work at whatever it is you work at… That is to say, when I don’t write, there is a very strange moment when I go to sleep. When I have a nap and I fall asleep. At that moment, in a...
by Michael Lesiuk | Aug 10, 2012 | Writing Convolutes
On thinking about Barnaby Rudge (1840-41): “I didn’t stir out yesterday, but sat and thought all day; not writing a line; not so much as the cross of a t or dot of an i. I imaged forth a good deal of Barnaby by keeping my mind steadily upon him; and am happy to...
by Michael Lesiuk | Aug 9, 2012 | Writing Convolutes
I like his method. I have a very complicated ritual about writing. It’s psychologically impossible for me to sit down, so I have to trick myself. I operate a very simple strategy which, at least, with me, works. I put down ideas, but I put them down usually...
by Michael Lesiuk | Mar 26, 2012 | Workflow
Jay Dolmage’s (relatively) recent blog post about Learning by Writing seemed to me quite on the mark, especially with regards to some of ways in which I’ve been toying around with my own study habits. I’m studying for my reading exams right now, and I’ve been finding...
by Michael Lesiuk | Dec 5, 2009 | Fiction/Lit/Movies, Workflow
I started a post comparing the writing habits of Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens, and Ernest Hemingway, but I found that for each writer the most interesting theme about their writing was unique to them. Trollope is a machine. Dickens is concerned primarily with his...
