strategies to overcome obstacles to writing II
I am looking things I wrote yesterday and turned a focus on the new project idea of redefining what writing is. The tricky thing is writing all the time. An academic position, particularly a director position requires one to do a whole heck of a lot of writing. Many administrative tasks have to be communicated in writing, whether that's the plan for a project, so advertising copy, communicating with faculty, administration, students, prospects there's a lot of email that has got to be written…
But I don't consider that part of my academic writing. What I do want to consider part of my academic writing are all the things that lead to the publication of the paper. Right now, at least want to separate my "pure" reading time, from my "pure" writing time: The literature review meeting time from the literature review writing time; the discussion analysis time from the discussion writing time.
Regarding strategies to overcome obstacles:
- What can I do about the fact that my head is clogged up with too many ideas?
I am looking things I wrote yesterday and turned a focus on the new project idea of redefining what writing is. The tricky thing is writing all the time. An academic position, particularly a director position requires one to do a whole heck of a lot of writing. Many administrative tasks have to be communicated in writing, whether that's the plan for a project, so advertising copy, communicating with faculty, administration, students, prospects there's a lot of email that has got to be written…
But I don't consider that part of my academic writing. What I do want to consider part of my academic writing are all the things that lead to the publication of the paper. Right now, at least want to separate my "pure" reading time, from my "pure" writing time: The literature review meeting time from the literature review writing time; the discussion analysis time from the discussion writing time.
Regarding strategies to overcome obstacles:
- What can I do about the fact that my head is clogged up with too many ideas?
- new rule:
- take two minutes at the start of the reading block – actually add two minutes to the total right – and do a brief meditation. Totally not me of course, but that traded before and it's not completely onerous :-).
- Another new rule:
- now that the first of the "exercises" have settled in, be sure to spend some portion of the writing time [at least 10 minutes] doing some writing that will actually lead to the production of a paper. ....
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