17th January 2023
WRITESPACE STUDIO 17th january 2023
Please introduce yourself by telling us where you live (country, city/state/region) and what kind of writing you do.
James: James, Stockport, UK, I write and research about design education.
Lynne: I'm Lynne, a linguist in Brighton, England, who writes about language for both academic and non-academic audiences.
Diana: Diana, academic/economic sociologist, academic writing, Montreal
Jean: Ko Jean Hay-Smith toku ingoa | My name is Jean. I live in Aotearoa | NZ. I am a university academic. A very reluctant writer.
Warm up: 5 minutes to write: one or more “interview questions" about Writing with Pleasure that you would like to see me answer on the Princeton UP blog.
James: What difference can writing with pleasure make to your writing? Why did you choose to write about pleasure? What difference has writing this book made to your writing? What is the real challenge for the writers you work with? What did you learn about the relationship between pleasure and writing from writing this book?
Lynne: How many ideas for other books did you get while writing this one? Who is in your acknowledgements section and why? What is the second strangest thing in the book? (leave the strangest for the people who buy it!) How different is the book from what you initially thought it was going to be?
Diana: How did you deal with the unpleasurable moments of writing “Writing with Pleasure”? Which chapter was the most pleasurable to write and why? Or what part of the project was the most pleasurable and why? At what point and how did you use your editor(s) to move the work along? Was it open or close-ended feedback?
Amy: I’m not sure if it is great, but…..It is heartening to see in recent years the attention given to scholarly writing and coaching, how does your book contribute to these conversations? Who is your intended audience? Please describe one or two take-home messages from the book.
Jean: What do we mean by 'writing'? - if this is a book about writing. What forms can writing take?
Pre-pomodoro: What do you plan to work on?
Lynne: I’ve outlined a subsection of a methodology section and now I’m going to fill it in a bit
Diana: I’m going to work on a very rough paragraph for a research proposal
Jean: I'd like to experiment with the 'purpose' for an academic paper, which is 'conceptual' in nature rather than the usual introduction, methods, results, discussion!
James: I am going to write a project brief (that I should have done today)
Amy: I am going to write a paragraph abstract for a conference presentation.
Post-pomodoro: Please tell us one thing that you accomplished -- no matter how small!
Diana: I wrote the rough paragraph I planned on drafting.
Jean: I wrote 2 sentences that might, eventually, make it into the abstract of the paper. They are, at least, the beginnings of what the paper is about.
Lynne: I started writing the subsection, a bit slowed down by having to look up details that I didn’t have in my mind
James: Re-wrote a project brief – to be more concrete and less zombie nouned!
WINDOW session: One thing that you discussed, noticed, or learned.
Lynne: “if they know what they’re doing, it’s not a good brief”
James: Materials and functions.
Jean: Putting the women first in my writing - thank you Lynne - because that's what I'd do clinically, and I'm writing for clinicians.
1 word poem
Actor - please - incontinent - zombie