Well, here I am, back at home.

Writing on the web is a strange thing. It feels very exposed. But, I’ve decided to use that feeling of exposure to my advantage. I’ve decided to blog the writing process, along with my next-day’s commitments.

Right now, I’m starting off small. The thesis is big and overwhelming, and I have an inordinate number of things I want to do by October. Plus, adjusting to life back in Canada, developing a routine (and knowing that that routine will have to change again come September, and then again come the end of biking season) makes things feel overwhelming and difficult. And so I’ve been, well, not exactly “blocked”, more like resistant.

But I’ve picked up a good book on academic writing, and I’m going to start putting its practices to work. And one of the things it suggests is that when you stop writing, you should sketch a brief plan for the next day. So I decided to do that here, where anyone can see. And since most of the people who read this blog are people I actually talk to on a regular basis, you now have licence to say “so, did you do X today?” to me, if you want.

I’ll sit down and actually write a review of the book when I’ve finished reading it.

For tomorrow:

Writing work:
-Practice mindful ‘waiting’ (meditative planning)
-Freewrite ideas about O. K.‘s funeral

Non-writing work:
-2 40/20* cycles of transcribing and/or looking at notes for O. K.‘s funeral
-email draft to advisor

*that’s 40 minutes of work, 20 minutes of break

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