Category Archives: Writing and publishing

Adding support for 2024/5

In 2021, I ran the Academic Writing Programme at the university of Bristol. We had about 50 people sign up. In 2022, I did the same, and we had about 40 more. In 2023, the same again… and another 40. Along with other support (career development writing programme, support for the South West and WalesContinueContinue reading “Adding support for 2024/5”

Day 3 – Pick the right gear… particularly if you’re lacking momentum.

Today, the AWP2024 is on a Writers’ Retreat so, although I’m writing, I’m also a bit distracted; thinking about whether the weather will allow us to go for a lunchtime walk, scouring the room for raised hands and listening for noises to squash. So my mind is drifting a bit… and, when that happens, IContinueContinue reading “Day 3 – Pick the right gear… particularly if you’re lacking momentum.”

Day 2 – Reading, and prepping a retreat

Yesterday went well. I found a few additional things to add into the reading, including some background material that I’ll use in the introduction to situate the issue. Today I’m reading more… I’m trying not to find too much at the moment. I only need enough for a solid introduction and I can always beefContinueContinue reading “Day 2 – Reading, and prepping a retreat”

Day 1 – planning and reading

Today is day 1 of AWP2024WritingZoo: this year’s Academic Writing Programme writing experiment… and it’s time to start planning. Yesterday, I picked what I was going to write – a journal article, and a rough topic… with a few questions in mind. I did this by journaling… just free-writing around what I wanted to do,ContinueContinue reading “Day 1 – planning and reading”

Thinking through what to write next

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 listContinueContinue reading “Thinking through what to write next”