Preparing the ground for the next steps
I’ve been working on a paper, as I’m sure any regular readers still left after all my literature reviews, would have noted. And the meat of it is written out, it will just require more writing and rewriting to get it into shape. For the past couple of weeks or so, I’ve found myself slipping […]
On the other hand
Enough time has passed that I must remind myself not to forget to continue my search for magic in the rhythm of my word craft, nor the music of the keyboard. On one hand, I cannot deny that writing and thinking deeply and analytically have begun to flow easily in a manner that I have […]
A change of pace to break up a pattern
In the midst of data analysis and writing up results focused on one of the key insights emerging from the masses of information hidden within the remote resilience project’s datasets means making a change of pace from the rather frantic reading and writing I’d been lately doing. I’ve discovered, via experimentation, that the two are […]
Literature as Waymarkers: A New Series of Shorter Posts
Yesterday’s post was almost 2000 words long, I might as well just send it off to a journal. To find a compromise between the facilitation of thinking and writing that blogging offers me, and an optimal length of writing and extracting content references, I’m exploring a new approach. It fits where I’m at now in […]
This one’s on me
Sing for me a word song, he said. One of those magical ones you craft with the music of your keyboard as the accompaniment. Write for me the the words that would capture the magic of being freed from constraints and limitations, to let the mind roam as free as the fingers do on the […]
Keep looking for the rhythm of the magic, don’t let it go
When I forget why I’m here and what I’m looking for, I forget to keep looking for it. I was drawn back to the keyboard to write this post today, after giving up for the umpteenth time to craft a coherent blogpost in the analytical style. I’ve got at least 4 different drafts saved with […]
Writing for pleasure
6 weeks into full-fledged blogging, I find myself approaching the keyboard for the sheer pleasure of writing again. Have I found the music of my word song that I was looking for? I don’t know. I haven’t actually thought about it recently, I’ve just been writing. The barrier to sitting down to write – for […]
Working Progress
I have come to deeply appreciate the role of the bystander, who stands there and smokes while watching the artist’s working progress.
Let me…
Let me be the month of April, the poetry month they say. Let me sing the song of spring, the sun shines every day. Let me look around with wonder, gaze upon the streams; walk within the forest, and muse upon the trees. Let me find the joy of life, and learn to love the […]
How literature review is changing my own mindset and perspective
Diving deep in to the literature of specific topics and on narrowly focused subject matter has been surprisingly pleasurable. And unexpected. The presence of the blog as an accompaniment is like a condiment for food for thought. In the month since I began to take blogging again seriously, even with the struggles to write down […]
