20th September 2022
WRITESPACE STUDIO 20TH SEPTEMBER 2022
Please introduce yourself by telling us where you live (country, city/state/region) and what kind of writing you do.
Stephanie: Hi I'm Stephanie, on unceded Gadigal country (Sydney, Australia). I am writing my PhD in Italian art history.
Jennifer Levitt: Jennifer, I'm on Yuggera and Turrbal land (Brisbane) I am writing my thesis in education.
Angelica Ribeiro: I'm Angelica Ribeiro. I live in Houston, Texas. My academic writing is on second language acquisition and I also write about happiness for pleasure.
Vernon Rupert Grant: Vernon Rupert Grant; Long Island New York—professional, academic publications
Aimee Brown: Hi! I’m on Wangal Land (Western Sydney). Academic Writing. My internet is very bad today so I might drop in and out occasionally
Bring our voices into the room: Share something nice that you have done or said or written to someone else recently.
Warm-up: Topic: Your writing. Title: What the bird said.
Diana: the bird looks up at the floating heart, a heart meandering along the bends of uneven surfaces and lines, at ease
Helen Sword: What the bird said: Helen, your writing needs to have heart. It needs to shimmer and glow -- texture, alive, real. It needs to live in a paradox: molten glass, still yet forever in motion
Stephanie: As you put the prompt up the rising sun shone a beam on my desk and a bird flew past my window singing. I wrote a dialogue from the bird telling me that I should write more at this hour because Bird has already been singing Sun into the sky
Aimee Brown: Childlike questioning - ‘Why?’ 'I don't get it’. Born from a genuine curiosity and not to be taken as criticism.
Angelica Ribeiro: I wrote about a rejection letter that I received last week. When I criticized my writing and myself, the bird reminded me that I should be more compassionate and supportive of myself.
Jennifer Levitt: Yellow eyes, all-knowing, glowing. No fuss, no wings flapping, no feathers flying, quietly seeing me, knowing, glowing.
Pre-pomodoro: What do you plan to work on?
Aimee Brown: Revising an abstract
Stephanie: I need to refocus the introduction to my current chapter
Diana: I'm working on a section of an article. I apologise in advance, but I'll have to leave at 5:25pm.
Jennifer Levitt: I am working on an abstract for a conference submission
Angelica Ribeiro: I plan to start revising the findings section of an academic paper.
Stephanie: I was going to say Blue Owl too!!
Diana: me too!
Post-pomodoro: What did you achieve?
Stephanie: I wrote the second paragraph of my introduction (again)
Diana: revisions to half a paragraph
Jennifer Levitt: I wrote the first draft of an abstract (rough, rough draft!)
Angelica Ribeiro: I revised 2 paragraphs of the findings section of the paper.
Stephanie: Happy to just be in a general group as Diana needs to leave
Diana: Seeing Stephanie's preference and my time crunch. I’ll go ahead and log off earlier than expected. Next time I should be able to do the full two hours. Thanks again!
WINDOW session:
Helen Sword: Edward de Bono, six thinking hats
Nina Ginsberg: Freddie! who is kicking who?
nice pick-up Vernon
verbs of transformation
Rewrite as a fairy tale: who are the heroes, villains and what is the journey? ‘Once upon a time……'
Vernon…. keen to hear your ideas next time.
1 word poem
Gold Rainbow:
moisteriser
mise en place
human hats
can't fit
death --
no, desk
fairytale
Nina Ginsberg: great to see you all! welcome Jennifer and Vernon!