1st February 2023
WRITESPACE STUDIO 1st February 2023
Please introduce yourself by telling us where you live (country, city/state/region) and what kind of writing you do.
Lynne: I'm Lynne, a linguist in Brighton, England, who writes about language for both academic and non-academic audiences.
Jean: Jean from Aotearoa New Zealand. A rehabilitation academic.
Amy: I’m Amy, originally from NZ but currently studying in Edinburgh. Art writing mostly!
Gokul: Good to be here with everybody!
Bring our voices into the room: Share a piece of good news! We talked about a new baby in the family, a new job, overcoming tricky admin jobs, and finally completing marking! Hurray!
Creative warm up: Write about this beautiful hand-printed sticker from a local Edinburgh artist: What does it make you think of? Can you relate it to your writing practice?
Lynne: It just takes a few degrees of tilt to make sorrow. A sorrow with company is not quite solace.
Kate: I wrote about what I could ‘see’ and then tried to shift my viewpoint - and see new/ different perspectives. I noticed that it was hard not to keep going back to/ staying in what I saw originally (4 faces).
Jean: I wrote about split personality - reading others writing (I love) and writing my stuff (not so much!)
Amy Lewis: This artwork reminded me of a dialogue, a conversation between two different souls. They see things differently, but can work collaboratively.
Pre-pomodoro: What do you plan to work on?
Jean: a methods section
Lynne: I’m going to try to write a short blog post about things I found interesting in a paper I read the other day
Shatha: Coding an interview
Kate: This is my first time sitting down to write after a long summer break - so I am going to write a reflection on my thinking over the break and try and bring in some of the ‘gems’ that came to my mind in that period that relate to my thesis work.
Post-pomodoro: Please tell us one thing that you accomplished
Lynne: I just wrote preamble…I do too much preambling!
Jean: I got halfway through one section of the methods
Amy: I wrote a poem based on the creative warm-up 😊
Kate: I free-wrote a few pages of rambling reflection - helps me figure out where I am at - to get back into my work properly/ consistently
WINDOW session: We had a lively discussion all together and shared texts as diverse as blogs and legal briefs. It is always such a pleasure to read what people are working on!
1 word poem:
Mirror-image
Settling
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Incontinence
Split