Sometimes I'll work through the crossword sections of three separate papers.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I love doing crosswords, it's so important to keep the brain going.
The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution.
One of the great joys of my job is that you spend a huge amount of time investigating different areas of literature.
People who work crossword puzzles know that if they stop making progress, they should put the puzzle down for a while.
You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your energy and valuable ink.
Each work seems to give me the most trouble at the time I'm working on it.
I outline and outline and outline, and then I'm very specific about the stuff I write. That's my process.
I like getting 'Times' articles online. But the actual paper just has too many words.
I write in a pretty straightforward way. I kind of sit down at page one and start writing.
I wrote it three times - with a Thesaurus.