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It’s Sunday morning and I’m sitting in my living room and pondering about how I actually never had the joy of either hosting or attending a writing retreat.
When I was a faculty member at CIDE I tried to host #ShutUpAndWrite weekly sessions.
These mostly didn’t work.
When I was a faculty member at CIDE I tried to host #ShutUpAndWrite weekly sessions.
These mostly didn’t work.
I get that we are all busy. I am an incredibly busy person myself.
But for me the joy of organizing a writing retreat would reside in making it work.
I have my own daily writing retreats. I write 4:30-6:30 in the morning all by myself.
I have enjoyed the collective writing.
But for me the joy of organizing a writing retreat would reside in making it work.
I have my own daily writing retreats. I write 4:30-6:30 in the morning all by myself.
I have enjoyed the collective writing.
But if I were to organize something post-pandemic it would need to have firm commitments from everyone.
Life happens to us all, I get it.
But for me, to commit to doing a writing retreat would mean really focusing and not paying attention to anything outside.
Life happens to us all, I get it.
But for me, to commit to doing a writing retreat would mean really focusing and not paying attention to anything outside.
My talk is in less than 20 minutes but I want to start a thread on projects like this from Dr. Yasmeen Abu-Laban, a full professor at @uabpols (University of Alberta’s Department of Political Science).
I think it’s amazing that Dr. Abu-Labán organizes these writing sprints.
I think it’s amazing that Dr. Abu-Labán organizes these writing sprints.
I love the idea of "writing retreats" but I am very aware of the drawbacks and time/resource limitations of trying to organize or participate in a writing retreat. raulpacheco.org/2020/01/on-the…
I do love the concept of in-house writing retreats, such as #ShutUpAndWrite
HOWEVER...
I do love the concept of in-house writing retreats, such as #ShutUpAndWrite
HOWEVER...
MY own experience running a #ShutUpAndWrite workshop at CIDE was in the range of between very poor and ok-ish. I think doing it helped those who participated, but not all of them enjoyed or benefited from it to the same level that I wish they had. This frustrated me.
Yesterday I offered to share some writing advice that has worked for me, & it garnered a lot of interest! So I'm going to share it here in a thread instead of individually by email because we can all agree that academic writing is HARD! So here we go #phdchat #AcademicTwitter
2-I find that it helps a lot to understand WHY I struggle to write. This graphic was the first thing that really helped me understand why writing my dissertation, in particular, was SUPER difficult. So reasons:
3-Writing your dissertation or a manuscript is hard because no one has ever been where you are. No one has ever written about it in the way you're going to. It's literally the edge of our collective knowledge or else you wouldn't be writing it. mymodernmet.com/phd-infographi…
