tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22001031.post4654012372371090594..comments2024-02-28T18:29:41.120-08:00Comments on Not of General Interest: "Kill your darlings"undinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05589384016564587214noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22001031.post-67222242963204989742008-03-29T16:55:00.000-07:002008-03-29T16:55:00.000-07:00The professional blog is supposed to do that, but ...The professional blog is supposed to do that, but it seems in large part to be a place to archive bibliography and scraps of ideas. I've got class blogs, too, intended for use of students but which I think actually get used more by me - keeping track of them turns out to be a great and painless way to prepare (I fool myself into thinking I'm not working, I'm just blogging, but really I'm doing heavy prep). It really and truly is <BR/>the main blog that changed my way of writing, freed me somehow.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22001031.post-54565408827317574892008-03-28T18:38:00.000-07:002008-03-28T18:38:00.000-07:00cero, I kept thinking that the blog would do this,...cero, I kept thinking that the blog would do this, but it hasn't for me so far. But you have a separate professional blog, too, don't you, where you work out ideas you're writing about?<BR/><BR/>Horace, at least you have diss. sections that you can use for this, even if you have to reframe everything. It's discouraging, though. I had a day a few months back when I thought I had a whole new--well, practically a book--but the new one just wasn't as viable as the old one. Maybe nothing is wasted, though; all that thinking has to count for something.undinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05589384016564587214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22001031.post-38508947872653725532008-03-28T08:44:00.000-07:002008-03-28T08:44:00.000-07:00I am staring this phoenix/ashes thing right in the...I am staring this phoenix/ashes thing right in the face. It's been almost five years since I defended, and with new research published, a lot more thinking about the project, and most recently, teaching a class on the topic, I am coming to understand more and more that a simple re-framing of the chapters is not going to work. I think I'm going to have to sit down and start with a new document, copying and pasting sections from the diss. as approporiate, but still working from the ground up again. <BR/><BR/>This doesn't look fun.Horacehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15662740021328265642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22001031.post-46491851876708847522008-03-26T22:36:00.000-07:002008-03-26T22:36:00.000-07:00Actually this is something blogging really helped ...Actually this is something blogging really helped me with. I know, of course, that pages one cuts from project A can be saved for project B, and so on. <BR/><BR/>But the thing is, I was never a draft writer (before blogging). I'd think things out in notes or while walking, and then when I actually composed, it would be very near final copy. That is what made it so hard to cut.<BR/><BR/>When I blog, I try to write clearly, so I can be read. But I am also using the blog to think things out: it isn't intended as final copy of a paper text. So I write and then cut in happy abandon, and it's affected my "real" writing such that I can do it there, too, a lot more easily than before.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com