9th November 2022

WRITESPACE STUDIO 9TH NOVEMBER 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.

Vicky: Vicky, in Essex UK. A historian writing about Victorian lodgers.

Anita: Anita in Cape Town, academic writing on student success and thriving, with a focus on engineering maths

Warm-up: Draw, sketch, mindmap: What does a writing community look like to you?

Vicky drew some people gathered around a globe-like lightbulb; Anita drew people walking on a canopy walkway suspended high up in the trees, with a safety net below and snakes lurking nearby (adding excitement to the venture!); and Lynne drew the WriteSPACE as a bunch of Zoom-like boxes, each containing an image representing a different type of person in our community: a lightbulb, a bolt of lightning, sunshine, an eyeball…

Pomodoro session: What do you plan to work on? What did you achieve?

Lynne: I’m starting the introduction for the next issue of the journal I edit. It’s pretty boring writing, but it needs to be done

Anita: Abstract for a journal paper - getting the idea tight.

Lynne: I started it!

Anita: Getting references together in a shared folder, playing with ideas

Other discussion points:
The stylistic challenges of co-authorship and the challenges of writing the editor's intro to a new issue of a linguistics journal.