There are so many ways to be involved in text that it is a shame to adhere only to prose.
I've curated a gallery of my phd journey via Flikr.
Today's twitterings on #phdchat introduced another by @londonaesthetik - here's my thesis as pie.
The joys of writing:
Other places: Cafes- advantages no ironing! No library shelves to be seduced by, no emails, or internet or skype or twitter to sink into. Combined with a pomodoro, its a kick start ot my writing day. Doesnt actually have to be the creative side of writing, its just as amenable to the editing phases or the reading and putting this into endnote or whatever data management system is being used.
Creativity of writing, the
phd as haiku, the phd as a tweet, the
phd in text speak, and of course there's always blogging. The blog allows a different voice, here mine's more playful, more provocative, less constrained. Sometimes its tangential. But sometimes its writing the tangents that allow me to become clearer.
In the thesis I am using multiple fonts for different voices, as well as varied backgrounds behind the words to simulate that a message is received by txt.
Ive also a
lolcat provocation as one representation in the conclusions.
Then there's writing around, not so much progressing the thesis but it's the skype chats, the instant messaging or icq of ideas and provocations to thoughtfulness. Or the writing around that's the annual review (I always think of this as an exercise in creative writing, yet am always surprized by how close to the truth it looks retrospectively).
Creativity around the writing. Here there are
postit notes, writing on mirrors or
ranchsliders instead of whiteboards, Great for rearranging and structuring. There's also bath crayons. And there is always
mindmapping the pen and big paper.
And proving realities are multiple, there's the
reinterpretation of one's writing. Here there are
wordles of the thesis, or the
infographic that my computer mouse thought i was producing. And there's the flight of imagination where i wish I could just
write on the inside of a glass sphere for then it wouldnt matter what comes first last or where in the middle of things ideas should fall.
i stop short however of the following creative writing idea.
