{"id":1690,"date":"2020-06-18T21:05:17","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T20:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/?p=1690"},"modified":"2020-06-18T21:09:27","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T20:09:27","slug":"josiah-osgood-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/josiah-osgood-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Author And Professor Josiah Osgood On The Churchill Standard, Embracing Writer&#8217;s Block, And Learning From The Master Of The Anecdote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Who<\/strong>:\u00a0Josiah Osgood<\/p>\n<p><strong>Claim To Fame<\/strong>: Josiah Osgood\u00a0is Professor of Classics at Georgetown University. He is the author of\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/ne3vP\">Caesar&#8217;s Legacy: Civil War and the Emergence of the Roman Empire<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/CDdPw5K\">Claudius Caesar: Image and Power in the Early Roman Empire<\/a>, <\/em>and his latest\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/qCCtAOd\">How to Be a Bad Emperor: An Ancient Guide to Truly Terrible Leaders.<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Where To Find Josiah<\/strong>\u00a0His\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gufaculty360.georgetown.edu\/s\/contact\/00336000014RXQYAA4\/\">Website<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/cJfENMC\">Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Praise For Josiah<\/strong>:\u00a0&#8220;A lesser scholar would have easily lost the way in the array of sources from which the author gleans and rearranges his material in a stunning montage&#8230;Mr. Osgood provides an admirable demonstration of original scholarship.&#8221; \u2014\u00a0J.A. Lobur<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/20-famous-writers-on-when-they-do-their-best-work\/\">When<\/a>\u00a0do you like to write? Are you\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/prolific-writers-routine\/\">regimented<\/a>\u00a0about your writing routine?<\/h3>\n<p>I am regimented in the sense that I try to get some writing done every day. It can be at 5 AM in the morning or late in the afternoon. I like the standard Churchill set for himself: \u201cEvery night I try myself by court-martial to see if I have done anything effective during the day.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/writers-workplaces\/\">Where<\/a>\u00a0do you like to write? What does your ideal work environment look like?<\/h3>\n<p>I prefer to write in a quiet and well-stocked library. Next best is my office at Georgetown University, where I have a good collection of books related to my research. As awful as the COVID-19 pandemic has been, I\u2019ve discovered a number of online resources and realized I really can write anywhere \u2013 at a kitchen table, on a lawn chair, in bed.<\/p>\n<h3>Do you have any\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/pre-writing-rituals\/\">pre-writing rituals<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/strange-writing-habits\/\">habits<\/a>\u00a0before you sit down to write?<\/h3>\n<p>Sometimes before I plunge in, I like to think for a few moments about a piece of writing I\u2019ve really enjoyed. It could be a novel with an unforgettable character, like those by Muriel Spark, or an enthralling historical narrative, like Macaulay\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/gzil\"><em>History of England<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>What do you do when the writing isn\u2019t coming easy? Do you struggle at all with that dreaded enemy of writing:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/overcome-writers-block\/\">writer\u2019s block<\/a>?<\/h3>\n<p>It\u2019s rare that I have nothing to write but I can get stuck on how to express a thought or make a smooth transition to a new topic. I\u2019ve gotten better at embracing those moments as opportunities to discover something new about the character or problem that you\u2019re writing about.<\/p>\n<h3>All of your work is very research intensive. What is your\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/i-research-3-new-york-times-bestselling-authors-spare-time\/\">method for researching and organizing material<\/a>\u00a0you might want to use for your future writing?<\/h3>\n<p>I try to take detailed notes, in MS Word files, of all the primary and secondary sources I consult, and then I can search them electronically. Even if something is available online, I think you absorb it better by entering it yourself into a file. For a historical episode where there are many sources I often create a table that compares what each source says, moment by moment. I also keep a notebook where I can jot down ideas that occur to me, for instance about how to sequence a chapter. I write a journal entry each morning and often thrash out a few ideas there.<\/p>\n<h3>For your latest book, <a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/qCCtAOd\"><em>How To Be A Bad Leader<\/em><\/a>, you translated Suetonius\u2014one of the great writers of the Ancient world who also wrote portraits of writers, poets, grammarians. Were there any lessons that you retained from working closely with his Latin that you apply to your writing routine?<\/h3>\n<p>Suetonius is the master of the anecdote.\u00a0 He knew that a brief and funny story can memorably sum up a whole personality. In writing I\u2019ve done since translating Suetonius, I\u2019ve worked harder at collecting everything I can about a person I\u2019m interested in and then selecting what is most revealing and arranging it for the greatest impact on the reader.<\/p>\n<h3>What books or writers have most influenced the way you think and the way you write?<\/h3>\n<p>When I was writing what became my first book <a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/ne3vP\"><em>Caesar\u2019s Legacy<\/em><\/a> (2006), on the experience of civil war in Rome, I was inspired by Paul Fussell\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/6bzh\"><em>The Great War and Modern Memory<\/em><\/a> (1975). Some of the claims Fussell makes are probably exaggerated but he has had me thinking ever since about how a writer really captures an experience like trench warfare. Fussell had a taste for irony and satire that I am sympathetic too and quotes many fine examples, such as Siegfried Sassoon\u2019s line: \u201cWhen all is said and done, the war was mainly a matter of holes and ditches.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>What is your advice to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/expert-advice-to-aspring-writers\/\">aspiring writers<\/a>?<\/h3>\n<p>If you have a good thought, stop everything and get it down in a notebook or a computer file. Take any opportunity you can to get your work edited. Turn off email, social media, web browsers for a couple of hours and see how much more you\u2019ll get done.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\">___________<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"m_-8554750413077525544gmail-ccd1\" class=\"m_-8554750413077525544gmail-graf m_-8554750413077525544gmail-graf--h3 m_-8554750413077525544gmail-graf--leading\">Ready to create a writing routine of your\u00a0own?<\/h3>\n<p id=\"m_-8554750413077525544gmail-9a9e\" class=\"m_-8554750413077525544gmail-graf m_-8554750413077525544gmail-graf--p m_-8554750413077525544gmail-graf-after--h3\">Sign up now and receive our free guide\u00a0<em>\u201c<a class=\"m_-8554750413077525544gmail-markup--anchor m_-8554750413077525544gmail-markup--p-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/subscribe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/subscribe\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1514038873687000&amp;usg=AFQjCNH5yl1byOuXmZDdLI8muC9FJDeFvg\"><span class=\"m_-8554750413077525544gmail-markup--strong m_-8554750413077525544gmail-markup--p-strong\">12 Essential Writing Routines To Help You To Craft Your Own<\/span><\/a><span class=\"m_-8554750413077525544gmail-markup--strong m_-8554750413077525544gmail-markup--p-strong\">.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p id=\"m_-8554750413077525544e4c2\" class=\"m_-8554750413077525544gmail-graf m_-8554750413077525544gmail-graf--p m_-8554750413077525544gmail-graf-after--p\">Learn from the routines of superstar authors\u00a0<em class=\"m_-8554750413077525544gmail-markup--em m_-8554750413077525544gmail-markup--p-em\">Stephen King, Gertrude Stein, John Grisham, Ernest Hemingway, Neil Gaiman, and many more.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4 id=\"m_-8554750413077525544e2d7\" class=\"m_-8554750413077525544gmail-graf m_-8554750413077525544gmail-graf--h4 m_-8554750413077525544gmail-graf-after--p m_-8554750413077525544gmail-graf--trailing\"><a class=\"m_-8554750413077525544gmail-markup--anchor m_-8554750413077525544gmail-markup--h4-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/subscribe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/subscribe\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1514038873687000&amp;usg=AFQjCNH5yl1byOuXmZDdLI8muC9FJDeFvg\"><span class=\"m_-8554750413077525544gmail-markup--strong m_-8554750413077525544gmail-markup--h4-strong\">Get the free guide\u00a0here!<\/span><\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who:\u00a0Josiah Osgood Claim To Fame: Josiah Osgood\u00a0is Professor of Classics at Georgetown University. 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