Finished reading: Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett 📚
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 budgets—their checkbooks, or their libraries’ acquisition budgets.
William Germano, From Dissertation to Book
Want to read: Malice House by Megan Shepherd 📚
Want to read: Pre-Raphaelite Painting Techniques by Joyce H. Townsend 📚
Want to read: Pre-Raphaelite Vision: Truth to Nature by Allen Staley 📚
