on writing

When I first went to college, at the University of Oklahoma in 1961, OU gave a master's degree in professional writing. You could specialize in various things -- fiction, nonfiction, newswriting, whatever -- but no matter what your specialization was, you had to write a minimum of one thousand words a day. You had to carry at least the past week's worth of writings with you at all times, because any professor or instructor could ask you to hand them over at any time.

They didn't have to be g...