Thread by @raulpacheco

Quick micro-thread on feeling stuck in your #AcWri, inspired by something that happened to me as I was reading Ellis Jones' paper on greenwashing journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117… - this paper has a solid, if a little bit hypercritical lit review on advertising, branding, greenwashing

Everything would have been fine (and was!) until I got to THIS sentence. I’m like “WAIT A MINUTE! That’s a mis-representation and mis-interpretation of Szasz 2007!” This prompted me to start writing a memo to counter Ellis’ argument. I should note I have a memo on Szasz 2007.

What Szasz DOES say (as my memorandum shows) is that there is higher likelihood that, because consumers protect themselves using inverse quarantine (aka purchasing bottled water), there is a higher risk of "political anesthesia", disinterest in pushing for better infrastructure.

Finding something I very, very strongly disagree with in an article totally breaks my writer's block, because I feel compelled to write a counter-argument (which I do in the memo I just showed, cranked 250 words in minutes). Responding to an article/book claim helps as a prompt.

My posts on getting unstuck with your #AcWri
- using 5 types of prompts raulpacheco.org/2017/03/using-…
- my @IJQMonline article on field notes as #AcWri prompts journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/16…
- my @LSEImpactBlog article on 5 ways to get unstuck blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocial…

- my @regionsezine on getting unstuck regions.regionalstudies.org/ezine/article/…
- my post on dealing with The Blank Page raulpacheco.org/2019/08/dealin…

My best piece of advice when feeling stuck or not finding the right idea: find something that YOU FEEL THE NEED, URGENCY OR RAGE TO RESPOND TO. </fin>