How did you guys get on yesterday?
I nearly managed to write my 1666 words :)
To be honest, I was mildly surprised. I wasn't sure whether I was going to be able to write that much in a day and do some 'actual' work :) I guess the coffee shop I found here in Austin has a good effect on me.
Which gets me to my question - where do you guys like to work?
Are you a library person?
Is Starbucks your haven?
Personally, when I'm at home I like to work either sitting on the floor or my bed (that way I can spread all my reading and notes out around me - and create the largest amount of chaos humanly possible). I also like working there because that's the area in my room that gets the best light for most of the day.
I love the light here in Cafe Medici in Austin! If you sit relatively close to the window you can imagine that you're working outside - and it does help that you're looking out on huge trees and the UT union.
Anyhow, I should stop going on about writing and start writing on my chapter :)
I would love to hear where you like to work and why! Oh, and also how you got on today!!!
Cheering you guys on--my last written preliminary exam is Thursday then oral defense November 11th and then dissertation writing in earnest.
ReplyDeleteI thought I would pass on a couple quotes. Hang in there!
36 year old Karl Barth to his good friend 34 year old pastor Eduard Thurneysen on February 16,1923.
"I only ask myself whether you might not and could not do what I have so often done: begin with a certain audacity to write (quite without reflection whether or not what you write is new or good, etc.) without hesitating until you are finished so that you have on paper, a corpus of, let us say, fifteen or twenty chapters, out of which then the remainder could crystallize and which could then be always worked over."
Karl Barth and Eduard Thurneysen, Revolutionary Theology in the Making: Barth-Thurneysen Correspondence, 1914-1925 (Translated by James D. Smart), Richmond: John Knox Press, 1964, p. 132.
http://www.andyrowell.net/andy_rowell/2010/09/karl-barth-on-the-audacity-to-write.html
Anne Lamott, "I know some very great writers, writers you love who write beautifully and have made a great deal of money, and not one of them sits down routinely feeling wildly enthusiastic and confident . . . Very few writers really know what they are doing until they've done it" (Bird by Bird, 21-22).
I also just read this recently and thought it and the links to other articles were good.
Support for Summer Writers
Do You REALLY Want to Be a Professor?
August 2, 2010
By Kerry Ann Rockquemore
http://www.insidehighered.com/advice/summer/summer8