tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295909.post356438064579514760..comments2024-02-23T03:28:33.435-05:00Comments on Culture Industry: my writing lifeMark Scrogginshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01431113440875342809noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295909.post-76775321362471411392011-02-20T17:49:50.380-05:002011-02-20T17:49:50.380-05:00I have yet to tabulate how long projects ACTUALLY ...I have yet to tabulate how long projects ACTUALLY take. I do keep tabs on how long I work on them, but never go back and add them up. I'll think about doing this: it'd be great to know before starting what I am actually getting into...Tanya Golash-Bozahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14299920277816825958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295909.post-76942407003916093052011-02-19T22:43:34.550-05:002011-02-19T22:43:34.550-05:00Special circumstances, EMS -- we were on Fire Isla...Special circumstances, EMS -- we were on Fire Island with no distractions (no TV, no movies, no videos to speak of), the girls in camp for much of the day. Nothing I <i>had</i> to do during the days except read & write.<br /><br />Oh yeah, & I'd been thinking the piece out for maybe 10 years. That helps.Mark Scrogginshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01431113440875342809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295909.post-83960491478086066102011-02-19T22:39:13.356-05:002011-02-19T22:39:13.356-05:00my last book took me 70 years to write
and 10 + (...my last book took me 70 years to write<br /><br />and 10 + (included in the 70) years to get it on paper.<br /><br />BIG DEAL!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295909.post-33474118737472594662011-02-19T18:07:29.676-05:002011-02-19T18:07:29.676-05:00You wrote that Davenport piece in 15 days? Damn. ...You wrote that Davenport piece in 15 days? Damn. That's impressive--my piece on Shapiro & Moss & Heller, which is about the same length, took something like 6 weeks. <br /><br />I keep running away from Stupid Motivational Tricks (and my own blog), whimpering about how much I have to do that's NOT my own writing. Clearly I need to buckle down and take another look.E. M. Selingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00426524354823232002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295909.post-37231206473305463002011-02-19T12:28:24.948-05:002011-02-19T12:28:24.948-05:00Thanks, Mark. I'm blushing.
I just met the...Thanks, Mark. I'm blushing. <br /><br />I just met the author of "get a life PhD" last night at the local faculty bar though some other sociology / American studies colleagues. It turned out we both had similar blogs. I guess KU is the place to go for writing advice.Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09371893596402673898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295909.post-9190454623929094482011-02-19T10:40:04.520-05:002011-02-19T10:40:04.520-05:00Hey Scroggins,
Thinking of writing projects in te...Hey Scroggins,<br /><br />Thinking of writing projects in terms of the number of work days (or even hours) they'll take is probably the best writing tip of all.<br /><br />I mean, too many of us chalk-dusted and ill-shaven academics seem to think of writing as an ontological state rather than an actual action ("I'm writing a study of Ashbery's ellipses," we'll say, when we're manifestly not writing, but sitting across from a colleague at lunch twirling our linguine on a fork). <br /><br />Or we'll have a very vague sense of the time it might actually take to write something I remember looking at a sabbatical proposal in which the writing project was to be a proposal for a book, based on an already written dissertation. I kind of wondered what the guy would do on the afternoon of the first day of sabbatical, after a busy morning of writing the proposal.<br /><br />Anyway, off to twirl linguine.<br /><br />BobArchambeauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17273511539172747550noreply@blogger.com