Prototyping
It is officially Spring break, mid-semester break, whatever you want to call it. I will not call it Easter break, as the school officially does, because I find that officially dunderheaded. Ugh. Anyway, for the ...
Month: March 2009
CEDAR: Corpora and Wikis
I attended the second session (having missed the first due to being brain dead) of the Collaborative Digital Research in the Humanities (CEDAR) postgraduate training program this past weekend. (Don’t ask me about the acronym.) ...
Checking up on Myself
I should have done this a couple of months ago… I guess I could post-date it, but I’ll be all honest and stuff. At the beginning of this semester, I had a supervisor meeting, which ...
Only 8 Working Days Till Spring Break
It’s called Easter Holiday here, but that does not clearly express the sense of freedom and liberation that is a 3-week spring break. Plus, I’m not Christian or pagan, so Easter just means more Cadbury ...
I’m an Amazon Breakthrough Novel Quarterfinalist!
Yes, I remember entering this contest…vaguely. Very vaguely. Oh well. Received notification this morning that I am one of 500 quarterfinalists (out of a maximum 10,000 entries, that’s not bad). You can see my novel ...
First Drafts are…Not(?) Crap
I’ve written fiction now for a while, always intended for print publication. The adages there are always “first drafts are shit,” “we’re not writers, we’re REwriters,” and “revise, revise, revise.” We hear about Hemingway reworking ...
Getting Rolling
It’s a lovely week. I teach two classes (same module, twice) for the English department, and on the schedule this week rose two lovely words: “Reading Week.” It’s a really fancy way to say “no ...
Practice-Based Research…Again
We had another departmental discussion on practice-based (and practice-led…the difference is subtle, but definite) research today. The first time I heard GH’s talk on the subject, it was amongst a bunch of postgrads, most of ...
The Evolution of the Research Proposal
I’m Super Organized Girl. Maybe it’s my father’s diluted OCD in my genes, recombined with that of my maternal grandmother. Maybe it’s the decade I spent as a professional writer, coordinating projects and people and ...
Surviving the Shark Tank
My department started this incredibly helpful, cruel, beneficial, nerve-wracking thing they call the Shark Tank. It’s open to any staff or postgraduate in the Humanities (I think the Sciences have a similar thing). Every so ...