This morning, I’ve been trying to work out what to write next.
Don’t get me wrong, I have a whole list of ‘possible’ projects but I’ve hit the end of a series of publications almost all at the same time (bad timing? poor planning?), and all the ones that I’ve had on the reserve list are either not ready enough, or too big to take on at this point.
I want something interesting, but manageable… that could open up more avenues in the future… and that I can blog through as a start-to-finish example within the period of the Academic Writing Programme. So, in other words, about three months.
Three months gives me time to write about 30,000 words (at 500 a day), or to write less if I have planning and collection of materials to do. With a couple of weeks for planning and reading up, it’s the ideal length of time to work up a journal article.
So, that’s what I’m going to aim for.
The topic is one that I recently brushed up against in a chapter that I wrote with a colleague in France. It’s something that I’ve written on before, and know quite a lot about… so I can get into it quite quickly. Also, it hasn’t (to my knowledge) been published on recently in English, which makes getting my hands on the literature relatively easy. Where it has been written about, there are some clear issues to poke into, as well as some interesting interpretative areas to explore.
I don’t have a journal in mind, yet. But I’ll have a look and see if I go for a field-specific one, or a more regular historical journal.
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