I've been trying to get going with the whole PhD dissertation thing for some time now, and I seem to have gotten out of the habbit of writing. Now, this is a problem, because the things I want to cover in the modeling languages book require a good deal of tricky writing, and I'm just not up to it yet. So I've started work on a less ambitious project, one which I hope will help me ramp up to the modeling languages book - a book on little languages. I've even started a web site, littlelanguages.com, to start working out some of the ideas for this book. It is my hope that I'll be able to pull together a good primer on these techniques which I use all the time, and that the experience of writing the little languages book will give me the momentum (and expertise) to write the modeling languages book.