Jacob S. Dorman, PhD

Academic Editor, Advantage Editing, author of The Princess and the Prophet (Beacon Press 2020) and Chosen People (Oxford UP 2013).

[Jacob S. Dorman, PhD @JakeDphD]

I have started a nonfiction editing business, specializing in academic writing. Publish, Don't Perish! With an editor, writing is MUCH less stressful.

https://t.co/36k6Yxhf9e

[Jacob S. Dorman, PhD @JakeDphD]

On Planning Writing

A lot of writing comes down to planning. You have to create a container that you can fill with inspired work, but the work itself is gradual and methodical. Successful writers plan...

https://t.co/EHWMMXmmS0

[Jacob S. Dorman, PhD @JakeDphD]

On Improvisation and Pace

Writing is a creative act, and it can also be an improvisational one. It takes a lot of practice, of course, but the idea that writing must be agonizingly difficult or slow is just an idea, and not a very good one.

https://t.co/3UYJjYVeHH

[Jacob S. Dorman, PhD @JakeDphD]

On Metaphors and Similes

Metaphors and similes are often visual images that delight and communicate simultaneously. And you don’t have to wear a flouncy shirt or be a novelist to use them.

https://t.co/GyzsalUkjL

[Jacob S. Dorman, PhD @JakeDphD]

On Leaving Things Out

The secret to great writing is not what you leave in but what you leave out...

https://t.co/VuVZZZuYp2

[Jacob S. Dorman, PhD @JakeDphD]

On Finding Your Camels…or Holding Readers’ Interest

James Campbell said something very interesting about the craft of writing: he said as a writer, you have to find your camels...

https://t.co/FwqMentmRj

[Jacob S. Dorman, PhD @JakeDphD]

I started a blog on writing! Here's the first post.

I literally wrote myself into existence, beginning with my name. But in a larger sense, we all write ourselves into existence whenever we publish anything under our own name...

https://t.co/Tvm5BIAdN0

[Jacob S. Dorman, PhD @JakeDphD]

@VanJones68 Hey @VanJones. I wrote one book about Black Jews/Israelites (Oxford 2013) that won the AHA Book prize for Black history and now I'm writing a follow-up about Blacks, Jews, Black Jews, Israelites and Israel from WWII to Kanye, Kendrick and Kyrie. Would love 2 talk. [email protected]

[Jacob S. Dorman, PhD @JakeDphD]

@Cynthia_Graham8 I am researching a West Indian named William Rand, who edited a newspaper in Ocala in the 1890s. Someone told me that Ocala was a magnet for West Indians from one particular nation, but I don’t know which one. Do you? Thank you! Are the black papers archived?

[Jacob S. Dorman, PhD @JakeDphD]

Hey @bluenoterecords! Check out: https://t.co/7WfRyq7JfG

[Jacob S. Dorman, PhD @JakeDphD]

@latimes's @kenandraughorne interviewed me for a story about @kanyeWest https://t.co/Z7kGX1MzLZ

[Jacob S. Dorman, PhD @JakeDphD]

@KyrieIrving I'm ready.

[Jacob S. Dorman, PhD @JakeDphD]

@DrMayaAngelou was right. There is only one race. It's called the human race. Why is no one talking about @KyrieIrving's antiracist tweets? @ADL @BrooklynNets @stephenasmith @wojespn

[Maya Angelou @DrMayaAngelou]

“What I really want to do is be a representative of my race, of the human race...I know that when I finish doing what I’m sent here to do, I will be called home. And I will go home without any fear, trepidations, wondering what’s gonna happen.” #MayaAngelou

[Jacob S. Dorman, PhD @JakeDphD]

@hebrews2negroes There is no one Jewish community just as there is no one Black community. We don't all think the same way and we don't all want to censor you. The way to address speech is with more speech. Let the best ideas win. Peace.

[Jacob S. Dorman, PhD @JakeDphD]

@MarxistRealism Sure, and also indigenous languages.

[Shams Charania @ShamsCharania]

Full story at @TheAthletic on the Brooklyn Nets delivering Kyrie Irving six action items he must complete in order to return from suspension: https://t.co/xj7B2yWjVy

[Jacob S. Dorman, PhD @JakeDphD]

Core Humanities @UNRHistory, GRI, Anthro @UNR presents @davidwengrow and "The Dawn of Everything” on March 23rd at 12 p.m. (Zoom link: https://t.co/us73jkQICT) with @JakeDPhD and Christopher Morgan. https://t.co/d901O7Qbxl

[Jacob S. Dorman, PhD @JakeDphD]

Core Humanities @UNRHistory, GRI, Anthro @UNR presents @davidwengrow and "The Dawn of Everything” on March 23rd at 12 p.m. (Zoom link: https://t.co/us73jkQICT) with @JakeDPhD and Christopher Morgan. https://t.co/d901O7Qbxl

[Jacob S. Dorman, PhD @JakeDphD]

When Emily went butch her nanna said "Oy! What a boichik!" But her wife of 14 yrs left. She mulched her grief into recreating the H&H bagel. NYT sez: best in USA. The story of Berkeley's Boichik Bagels, artisanal food, Silicon Valley gentrification & Jewish & queer idntty #PitMad

[Jacob S. Dorman, PhD @JakeDphD]

@ProfOgbar @ProfTDParry @KeishaBlain @DrIbram @unevadareno @UNLVLiberalArts @unlv #BlackTwitter

[Jacob S. Dorman, PhD @JakeDphD]

The second meeting of the Black Studies Research Roundtable meets tomorrow, Friday at 4 pm Pacific time featuring new work by Tyler D. Parry, @ProfTDParry To register, and for free books and optional mentoring visit: #https://bit.ly/2NL5Ast. .