Gordon, do you have any advice regarding this...?

Thanks Gordon for pointing out this web site (and for all your very helpful advice as well)....

Gordon, I've found that myself, I have no problem writing short articles. But when it comes to writing something large -- like a book -- I become daunted... The idea of sticking to one train of thought for that long....

Do you have any advice for someone who might have a problem like this?

By the way, I have written ONE long "work" -- my Ph.D. thesis. But, in reality, my thesis was a series of research articles slapped together... I struggled to make my diverse range of articles sound like it was really a coherent piece of work on a single theme.... (I guess I convinced them in the end that it was, though it was tough!)

I was wondering, do you think that if you are better at writing short articles, it might be better to write "books" which are a series of essays? I don't know if you've seen any of his books, but there's a biologist, Stephen Jay Gould, who writes popular science books which are like that, simply collections of his (quite fascinating) essays about the phenomenon of living things....

Gordon, do you have any helpful advice regarding this?

- Dien