Thoughts on Writing by Alexander Callos. More Advantages to Forcing Yourself. A thousand words might not seem like very much, but in the context of writing them in less than half an hour and with unexpected creative dividends, wow. Again, exhausted because of obligations outside the scope of writing caused me to try and worm myself out. Amazingly, I was able to force myself to set aside some time. The moral of the story? It absol.

Using the Roman past to illuminate the present. New York Review of Books. Importantly for my purposes, stricter and stricter laws with heavier an.