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.

A roundup of resources to help creators and users of media of all sorts navigate licensing and copyright issues.

Image: Lachenal and Favre, 558 Glacier du Géant, Chamonix, Savoie, 1871-1882, Lachenal and Favre Glass Stereoscopic Photographs Collection, Williams College Visual Resources Center, https://jstor.org/stable/community.16225604.

November! It used to be NaNoWriMo for writers all over the world. For years I told myself that next year, I’d do it, but I never did. The problem wasn’t time; at least, it wasn’t after I left my work as a history professor. It was confidence.

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.