Life… oh, life

After I wrote the last post (in May!), I disappeared. Poof! Gone! One reason is just life – lots of it, kids’ birthdays, school, shopping, cooking, cleaning… nothing out of the ordinary though. And getting ready for a wedding – OK, this isn’t ‘ordinary’, but it’s happening in September, so every non-working moment has beenContinueContinue reading “Life… oh, life”

Day 9 – Invasion of the ‘more’

It was inevitable that it should happen at some point, but I’ve started this morning assailed by the conviction that anything that I write will be reductive, and that I really need to include more (and more, and more, and more) information. This isn’t driven by a desire to show off… actually, possibly the opposite.ContinueContinue reading “Day 9 – Invasion of the ‘more’”

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”