On resetting a writing practice with the Bradbury (3/1/52) challenge and some book recommendations.

Image: Odilon Redon (French, 1840–1916). Fear. 1866. The Cleveland Museum of Art; Collection: PR - Etching; Department: Prints. https://jstor.org/stable/community.24621110.

It’s time for summer reading: lists of journal articles from JSTOR and an invitation to read some weird detective fiction with me!

Image: E Mervyn Taylor. Bookplate: Ex Libris G.W. Boot. 1960. Wood engraving. Museum of New Zealand - Te Papa Tongarewa; Collection: Art; Gift of Mrs E Henderson, 1987. https://jstor.org/stable/community.27022908.

This is the first post in a series on making the most of writing advice without getting overwhelmed. We’re starting with two principles for putting writing advice into perspective: consider the source and remember that everyone’s process is different.

Image: Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Dora Greenwell, and Dalziel Brothers, Young woman leaning against a wall reading a book as snowflakes fall, wood engraving by Dalziel Brothers, 1863, after E. Burne-Jones, Wellcome Collection, https://jstor.org/stable/community.24885859.

I love cutaway drawings, especially of buildings. This post is a gallery of public domain cutaway drawings, mostly from Wikimedia Commons, followed by a short list of cutaway books to check out.

Image: Russell Porter, Cutaway Sketch of 200″ Telescope and Dome, 1938, https://jstor.org/stable/community.30991769.

Around the web with some book recommendations and dancing stereograph photos.

Image: Unknown maker. Stereoscopic Camera. 1875-1890. Wood; metal; glass, Science Museum Group; Gift of J.T. Chapman Limited. Open: Science Museum Group. Artstor. https://jstor.org/stable/community.38369026.

Creative confidence and tolerating the ‘taste gap’ for November.

Image: Felix Fontaine, The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller (1862; Project Gutenberg, 2019), ‍https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/60045/images/i_frontis.jpg.