Andrew Gudgel

An Irregular Blog

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Getting Political
April 14, 2023

Narrowing the Delta
March 7, 2023

No Resolution
January 24, 2023

Inspector Bucket
January 6, 2023

The Bill for 2022
December 22, 2022

Use it up, Wear it out
December 2, 2022

Contra Social Media
November 11, 2022

To the Marrow
September 27, 2022

Editing Things and Words
September 4, 2022

Steady Drops
July 1, 2022

Taking Stock
June 17, 2022

To Con or Not to Con?
February 25, 2022

No Magic Bullet
February 4, 2022

Random Thoughts VI
January 3, 2022

You Have to Care
November 29, 2021

The One True Way
October 28, 2021

Over the Hump
October 8, 2021

Books as Adjuncts
September 6, 2021

To the Bone
August 6, 2021

Doing the List
July 27, 2021

Beachcombing
June 11, 2021

What We Leave Behind III
May 18, 2021

'Tis the Gift to Be Simple
May 7, 2021

Always Check
April 09, 2021

Random Thoughts V
January 08, 2021

At the Waning of the Year
December 24, 2020

Deliberate Practice and Projects
December 4, 2020

The Mechanics of Longhand
November 6, 2020

Random Thoughts IV
October 9, 2020

Reverse Engineering
September 18, 2020

Reducing My Attack Surface
August 22, 2020

The Boundaries of Genre
July 20, 2020

No Bad Writing
July 3, 2020

Community
June 5, 2020

Just for You
May 20, 2020

Put the Laptop Away
April 20, 2020

The Humble Letter
March 30, 2020

The Writer's Desk
March 20, 2020

Irons in the Fire
February 26, 2020

Forgetting My Phone
February 14, 2020

Being Low Tech in a High-tech World
January 27, 2020

Random Thoughts III
January 03, 2020

Water, Molasses, Glass
December 19, 2019

The Notebook Habit
December 6, 2019

More Than Words
November 18, 2019

Flinging Droplets
October 31, 2019

Just One More Rejection
October 11, 2019

More than One Muse
September 27, 2019

Cost/Benefit Analysis
September 6, 2019

The Baby and the Bathwater
August 09, 2019

Some Practical Thoughts on The Kenyon Review Workshops
July 19, 2019

Ideas and Energy
June 24, 2019

There Will Always Be a Gap
June 3, 2019

Hobbies and Camouflage
May 10, 2019

Pascal's Writer
April 19, 2019

A Discussion of Q
April 4, 2019

A Writer's Bookshelf
March 14, 2019

Empty Cups and Silent Muses
February 27, 2019

Two Hobbies
February 13, 2019

What is a Classic?
January 23, 2019

The Writer as Reader
January 10, 2019

One-sentence Story
December 17, 2018

Career Plans
December 6, 2018

Grist for the Mill
November 6, 2018

Finding Balance
October 19, 2018

Credo
September 27, 2018

History--Another Idea Generator
September 20, 2018

Success Indicators
September 6, 2018

On Bumper Stickers and Beliefs
August 23, 2018

Keeping On Schedule
August 3, 2018

Slaying the Hydra
July 19, 2018

What We Leave Behind II
June 15, 2018

Random Thoughts II
May 29, 2018

Idea Generator
May 16, 2018

How to Steal a Story
April 30, 2018

And So It Ends
April 30, 2018

Stolen Writing
April 06, 2018

Keeping a Daybook
March 20, 2018

Random Thoughts
February 15, 2018

What We Leave Behind
January 8, 2018

Time Management and To-Do Lists
October 25, 2017

The Guide and the Trail
May 22, 2017

Back to School
February 13, 2017

Not Resolutions, But Habits
January 5, 2017