13th December 2022
WRITESPACE STUDIO 13th DecEMBER 2022
Please introduce yourself by telling us where you live (country, city/state/region) and what kind of writing you do.
Diana: Diana, Montreal, academic writing
David: My name is David, I am in my office (at 8 p.m.!) in Oslo. I write academic texts (criminology) and have started to try writing a bit of popular science!
Angelica: I am Angelica. I live in Houston, USA. My academic writing is on second language acquisition. I also like to read about happiness - that's my pleasure writing.
Anna: I'm a political scientist working on social policy in Southern Africa. I am presently trying to revise a paper for a journal for which I received an R&R a looong time ago.
Catalina: Hi all, I am Catalina. I am in Colombia but usually based in UK. I do urban planning - design scholarship.
Warm up: Write about something you will leave behind in 2022 and something you will take with you into the new year!
Helen: I'm leaving behind university employment! For the first time in over 40 years (!), aside from a couple of very brief intervals, I’ll no longer be a university student or teacher. What I'm carrying into 2023: This amazing community and a sense of excitement, creativity, pleasure.
Angelica: One thing that I am taking with me is the habit of writing down my thoughts and ideas about writing in a journal. And one thing that I am leaving behind is the self-doubt about my writing that sometimes I have.
Anna: I am taking into 2023 my resolution to prioritise my own well-being. I cannot think of anything to leave behind!! I suspect that's why I have so much to carry around!
Catalina: I will bring with me the determination to pour my life with my creative guts / I will leave behind the [co-authorship] relationships that need to be pushed to deliver over agreements
Diana: Taking with me trust in the timing of things; leaving behind self-doubt
David: I am carrying into 2023 the willingness to keep improving my writing despite the pushbacks from some reviewers (a minority!). And I want to leave behind forcing myself to write something that I don't want to write just because it is promised to the funder (there is always a way around).
Pre-pomodoro: What do you plan to work on?
Diana: I’m going to work on ideas for an opening paragraph for a new piece
Anna: I will re-read a paper that I need to revise (and which I haven't looked at in a while) to see what I will have to do next
Angelica: I will create an outline for an article I am working on.
Catalina: I plan to work on a sample of a sub-section of a theoretical article I want to finish before the end of the year. I need to find the right tone for the closing section
David: I will keep writing the intro to an edited book :)
Post-pomodoro: What did you achieve?
David: I drafted a paragraph about 'epistemologies of the south' and 'coloniality'.
Catalina: I wrote a short paragraph illustrating the tone of the sub sections I need to wrap up the article
Diana: I have a first rough coherent draft of my opening
Angelica: I created an outline of what I have left to do to complete an article I am working on.
Anna: I overcame my fear of looking at my paper again
Catalina: David, I was also writing on decoloniality!
David: ah, I am intrigued Catalina.
1 word poem
Magic potion: thinking map, juggle, tangible cartographies, streamlining, retrenchment