Jim's Writing Column
The column "On Writing" offers some wide-ranging thoughts on how to write well. The column publishes every other Thursday in the Arts section of the Juneau Empire.
Latest Columns
- Trust Your Fear - 12/21/16
- Flip-flop - 11/23/16
- Thinking toward the Reader - 11/9/16
- On Not Being a Writer - 10/12/16
- Still Harping, Part 2 - 9/28/16
- Still Harping on Strunk & White, Part 1 - 9/14/16
- Implausible Deniability - 8/29/16
- Clarity and Precision - 8/16/16
- God Bless You, Rocky Ragazzo - 8/3/16
- The Dance We Do with Readers - 6/22/16
- The Sound of Writing, part 2 - 6/8/16
- The Sound of Writing, part 1 - 5/25/16
- The Scattering Afield: A Personal Essay - 4/16/16
- Burn your Strunk & White - 4/13/16
- Idioms & Oddities, part 2 - 3/30/16
- Idioms & Oddities, part 1 - 3/16/16
- Gods of Death - 3/2/16
- Naming the Sun - 2/24/16
- Between Sentences - 2/10/16
- How to Make Love in Pidgin - 1/6/16
- Words, pt. 2: The Colors of a Word - 12/23/15
- Words, pt. 1: Acting Like Hamlet - 12/9/15
- The Name of the Sentence - 11/25/15
- Paragraphs - 11/11/15
- Running out of ink. Guest columnist Michelle Hale - 10/28/15
- Writing and Reading - 10/14/15
- JPD against the Borg - 9/30/15
- Bologna and the Borg - 9/16/15
- Rehabilitation & Red Tape, by guest columnist Lowell Ford - 9/2/15
- Living in a Concrete Box, by guest columnist Byron Benedict - 8/19/15
- Writing at Lemon Creek - 8/5/15
- Writing in Bad Faith - 7/22/15
- Dummies - 7/8/15
- Style - 6/24/15
- How to Think & Write at the Same Time - 6/10/15
- Racism and Charlie Hebdo - 5/27/15
- Editorial Horrors - 5/13/15
- How to Think - 4/29/15
- Moses & Me - 4/15/15
- Omitting Needless Words - 4/1/15
- The Existential Keyboard - 3/18/15
- Buying Shoes - 3/4/15
- Love and Desire - 2/18/15
- Religion and Satire - 2/4/15
- Talking to Vampires - 1/21/15
- When Typewriters Roamed the Earth - 12/25/14
- Painting by Numbers - 12/11/14
- Telling the Story - 11/27/14
- Big Words, part 2 - 11/13/14
- Big Words, part 1 - 10/30/14
- Don't Seize the Day - 10/16/14
- Mistakes Were Made - 10/2/14
- Commas, history and William Strunk - 9/18/14
- Philosophy and writing well: what's bad about bad writing - 9/4/14