Steven Johnson-- The Spark File - Johnson, a prolific nonfiction writer, talks about his "spark file," a repository and a process for collecting good ideas.good ideas
James Fallows on Using Software to Organize and Draft - James Fallows, a journalist and columnist of The Atlantic, is "old school". He worked as a speech writer during the Carter Administration and continued his career as a journalist and nonfiction writer. His interest in software to help writing is in itself interesting-- he's an early adopter. Non fiction writers, like academics, need to manage an organize ideas and information to build into work. Often, a body of work grows into overlapping essays, then into books. Dissertation writers could do worse than looking to nonfiction writers for advice about how to write.
Hannah Tinti-- When Writing is Actually About Waiting - A beautiful short essay about persistence.