Writing Wednesday: NDQ

Over the last week or so, I’ve been slogging through some revisions on my article about the the first 23 volumes of NDQ. While this has involved lots of spinning wheels, some crunching of data, and some new prose (especially after I learned that my article could be 7500 words rather than just 4000). The best of this new prose, which isn’t saying much to be honest, is in the introduction: From 1910/11 to 1933, The Quarterly Journal of the University of North Dakota (now North Dakota Quarterly) was a regional magazine based at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, North Dakota (USA). It appeared in 23 annual volumes across four issues each with five or six articles of 4000-5000 words as well as book reviews, poetry, and various editorial and university notes. Each volume, then, amounted to a 125,000 words or so and the total run of the first 23 volumes to a bit under 3 million words. The Quarterly emerged amid a deepening interest in regionalism in the American scene. With…