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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

📺💬🖖🏻 “I can’t say being equal parts irritating and endearing isn’t slightly familiar.” Picard 3x06, The Bounty. IT ME.

📚💬 “Life is absurd. It has no meaning. But it has beauty, and wonder, and we have to enjoy that.” Frieda Menco, Holocaust survivor, quoted in Amsterdam: A History of the World’s Most Liberal City by Russell Shorto

📚💬📓 “… being transparent about one’s positionality, and choosing a granularity of analysis appropriate to your actual knowledge and experience, are key choices soneone must make as they enter fan studies.” Henry Jenkins, “Textual Poachers, Twenty Years Later”

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Tyler: Come on, don’t you like a day that’s all about you?
Wednesday: Every day is all about me. This one just comes with cake and a bad song.

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