Finished reading: Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett πŸ“š

My first finished Discworld. Reading Piers Anthony feels like coming home (miss me with your takes on him, please, I know his flaws). Reading Terry Pratchett feels like visiting a treasured friend. A lot of fun here.


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Learn how to revise and you will produce a better first book. Remember it and you will enjoy writing the books to follow.

William Germano, From Dissertation to Book


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Revision is unromantic, time-consuming, tiring. It is also the only way to make one’s writing better.

William Germano, From Dissertation to Book


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Writing isn’t a record of your thinking. It is your thinking.

William Germano, From Dissertation to Book


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Revision is a job for optimists.

William Germano, From Dissertation to Book


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…the operating instructions of scholarly publishing rarely form a part of graduate training…

William Germano, From Dissertation to Book


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Write everything you want published as if there are people who make decisions and work within limited budgetsβ€”their checkbooks, or their libraries’ acquisition budgets.

William Germano, From Dissertation to Book


Want to read: Malice House by Megan Shepherd πŸ“š


Want to read: Pre-Raphaelite Painting Techniques by Joyce H. Townsend πŸ“š


Want to read: Pre-Raphaelite Vision: Truth to Nature by Allen Staley πŸ“š



Want to read: Flora Symbolica: Flowers in Pre-Raphaelite Art by Debra N. Mancoff πŸ“š


Want to read: The Pre-Raphaelites by Laurence Des Cars πŸ“š



Want to read: Haunted Texts by William Evan Fredeman πŸ“š


Want to read: Essential Pre-Raphaelites by Lucinda Hawksley πŸ“š


Want to read: The Pre-Raphaelite Tragedy by William Gaunt πŸ“š


Want to read: Pre-Raphaelites in Love by Gay Daly πŸ“š


Want to read: Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde by Tim Barringer,T. J. Barringer πŸ“š


Want to read: The Pre-Raphaelites in Literature and Art by Dennis Sydney Reginald Welland πŸ“š


Want to read: Reading the Pre-Raphaelites by Tim Barringer πŸ“š


Want to read: The Pre-Raphaelite Art of the Victorian Novel by Sophia Andres πŸ“š


I love the Gothic Charm School book very much and am happy to have bought it as an ebook so I can re-read it as I travel, but I miss the special font for the Secret Goth Cabal. πŸ’€πŸ“š


Want to read: Haunted Greece by John L. Tomkinson πŸ“š


Want to read: Troublesome Things by Diane Purkiss πŸ“š