24th October 2022

WRITESPACE STUDIO 24TH OCTOBER 2022

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.

Stephanie: Hi I'm Stephanie, on unceded Gadigal country (Sydney, Australia). I'm writing my PhD in art history on Italian art.

Vicky: hello, Vicky in Essex (UK), historian, working on a book about Victorian lodgers

Lorna: Lorna in the northeast of Scotland, critical accounting scholar writing for work and daily journalling

Phil: My name is Phil, I’m in New Zealand, I’m a medical herbalist, practitioner, consultant, technical writer and occasional blogger. I write lots about herbal medicine, for both practitioners & patients/everyone else.

Anita Campbell: Anita from Cape Town, currently at Wellington for a writing retreat to write about putting projects into engineering maths

Nina: Jingiwalla all! Lovely to be here! I’m beaming in from the unceded Narlang lands of the Traditional Quandamooka peoples (Morton Bay, QLD, Australia).  I’m a Researcher, Writer, Creative, Bike Rider & Blogger. See more on my blog: https://www.bicyclescreatechange.com/

James: James, Stockport, UK. I research and write about design education.

Bring our voices into the room: Describe the weather where you are.

Nina: We have been having extreme weather events on the east coast of Aust. thinking of all those in flooded and affected areas

Warm-up: When and where have you experienced a “flow state”? Was it writing-related? How did it feel? How did you achieve it?

Stephanie: I wrote about how flow can't co-exist with trying to control things

Lorna: I wrote about experiencing different states of flow - only one of which was writing-related ;-)

Vicky: When responding to the prompt 'how did it feel', I accidentally wrote 'other wordly' rather 'other worldy' :)

Stephanie: I love "other wordly"!

Phil: An experience I had a few weeks ago, taking my son and his friend down a river rockslide, on small bodyboards, in the middle of the winter!  Cold, exhilarating, nerve-wracking, but we all survived!

Niamh: I had a good moment when writing a section of a chapter last week, it helped me become more focused on the topic I was working on.

Anita: I noticed I am more likely to feel flow when working on a well-defined task, so the focus is on crafting the writing

Lynne: When I was writing my dissertation/thesis years ago, I got obsessed with peeling paint off a bookcase. I could just do it for ages and ages, which for me raised the Q of whether I only experience flow in procrastination!

Eva: I free-wrote about the flow of seasons and how autumn has transformational and magic potential.

Nina: The story of Ebb and Flow:🐓&🐓 🥚🔏

Catalina: In my case was about a recent party when I was in flow singing - timeless atmosphere of enjoyment

Pre-pomodoro: What do you plan to work on?

Lynne: I am working on a commissioned piece…I've written an outline, so I suppose I'll start a paragraph!

Stephanie: I'm writing the last paragraph in this section of the chapter

Nina: I am writing a worlding for the Productive Catalyst module I'm on

Vicky: I stumbled across something this morning in my sources that I want to explore, so 25 mins of writing to figure something out.

Anita: I'm revising an abstract, putting ideas on a mind map.

Post-pomodoro: Did you achieve what you set out to do?

Lynne: Less than …though I think it's a good start

Catalina: sorry, writers. I have to dash off. happy rest of the day.!

Stephanie: Yes, and I'm really thrilled to have wrapped up this section as I've been working on it for a while now.

Niamh: Yes, I got most of what I planned to do done.

Phil: kind of... made a start anyway!

Vicky: getting there with this case

Lorna: I did indeed do what I set out to - that's a nice change!

Anita: 2 legs of a spider

James: Yes, I tidied up the first four paragraphs of a proposal for seed funding to a shareable state

Nina: Yes -I got the guts of a worlding = 100-word summary

Eva: I worked on the structure of a journal article and searched for additional literature- not really writing, but still moving the article onwards.

WINDOW session:  One thing that you discussed, noticed, or learned.

Eva: spacetimemattering

Nina: Write with FIRE 🔥 (fast) ….edit with ICE ❄️ (slow). And striptease writing

Vicky: We had a really good discussion about Phil’s and Niamh's work -- fascinating stuff!

Stephanie: I loved the discussion on the Worldings, writing richly layered with meanings

Lynne: lots on what works in terms of using big blocks of time well

Aimee: Little tasks, personal productive times

Niamh: Good discussion about our different research. Paragraph content advice really helpful.

James: Get the action/purpose in early, the larger context can follow

Anita: Changing to a different kind of writing to fit the stage of a project can be uncomfortable

1 word poem

Rhythms: Hokey-cokey, Fire, Unveiling, Juxtaposition, Brown-noise, (Infra)structure, Paragraph, StripteasHer, Problems, Slope, Supportive.

*Amy hosted this session as Helen was unwell.