Open Thread: The Writerly Virtues?

What Does It Take to Perform and Persist as a Writer? Luke Timothy Johnson Has Answers. What About You?

I’ve been thinking about this question ever since dipping into Luke Timothy Johnson’s memoir, The Mind in Another Place: My Life as a Scholar. A onetime Benedictine monk and priest, Johnson is now a noted historian and New Testament scholar.

Toward the end of Mind in Another Place, he lists several moral and intellectual virtues scholars need to do thei…