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January 2025
March 2025

What Footnotes Are Actually For

On Revision as an Argument

Every draft revision is a claim about what the sentence should have been. That claim has consequences for everything that follows it on the page.

Not evidence. Not pedantry. A footnote is where the writer admits the argument is more complicated than the text above it allows.

November 2024
September 2024

The Sentence That Ends a Chapter

Reading Aloud as an Editorial Tool

A chapter's last line carries more weight than any other. It is the one a reader takes with them before they stop for the night.

If you cannot say the sentence at normal speaking pace without stumbling, the sentence is not finished. The ear catches what the eye skips.

July 2024
April 2024

On Publishing Timelines and Patience

Against the Rhetorical Question

A book takes as long as it takes. The calendar an editor sets is a target, not a guarantee—and that difference matters to everyone involved.

Opening an essay with a question the writer already intends to answer is a form of bad faith. State the claim. The reader will decide if they agree.

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