I’d Rather Be Writing – Tom Johnson

The Common Language Everyone Speaks

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010 Posted in Technical Writing | 18 Comments »

Several weeks ago, I was reading something that caused me to worry. A line in a scriptural narrative biography tells how his father taught him in all the ways of ... Read more..

NaNoWriMo and NaBloPoMo Start Nov 1

Sunday, November 1st, 2009 Posted in Creativity | 9 Comments »

Today is the start of both NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) and NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month). The goal of NaNoWriMo is to write a 50,000 word novel in one ... Read more..

Great Books by Writers Who Aren't Dead Yet

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Great Books by Writers Who Aren't Dead Yet My friend Josh just started this site. He's an English professor at BYU Idaho. It's an online book club involving discussion of excellent ... Read more..

What I See — James Hall’s Essays and Florida

Sunday, December 21st, 2008 Posted in Creativity | 4 Comments »

[caption id="attachment_2482" align="alignright" width="167" caption="James Hall's book of essays, "Hot Damn""][/caption] On my father's recent visit from Florida, he brought me a stack of books, one of them James Hall's collection ... Read more..

Transitioning from Literary Studies to Technical Communication

Thursday, November 20th, 2008 Posted in Technical Writing | 16 Comments »

Last night, unable to sleep at about 4 a.m., either because I went to bed early or because I simply couldn't sleep, I grabbed my BlackBerry, on its usual place ... Read more..