In the never-gets-old category: The Wall Street Journal asked a bunch of writers about their writing habits. Edwidge Danticat writes her books in those blue exam notebooks they give you during your college finals. Michael Ondaatje likes 8½-by-11-inch Muji lined notebooks. Richard Powers writes by speaking into voice-recognition software on his laptop.

Good stuff. I’m not sure why this topic continues to hold fascination for me since I have long since established my own peculiar writing habits, but it does. Maybe I’m checking to see if I’m doing it correctly?