Writing, Reading, Habits
Thinking about the future, how I’d like to be a professor, advise students, have my own research projects. Thinking about revising papers from journals, and having a regular writing schedule, and reading more. Orals are stressing me out to some degree but nothing like the feeling of what it will take to reach that future goal. I keep thinking about how I struggle with writing, and how much reading I’ve been doing for orals, and how both of these things–reading and writing–are the most central tasks of my craft. If I can master these two, having a regular reading and writing routine in my life, the rest of it (conferences, teaching students, administrative duties in my department, writing grants…) sounds easy, fun, something to look forward to.
Battling against the feeling of being alone in the pursuit right now, with only my own time to manage. Of not always prioritizing things in the right way. Of putting off dealing with feedback on a paper and not yet having my dissertation prospectus written. I’ve got plenty of notes and ideas, but it feels like such a commitment to put it all in 7 pages for discussion during orals.
Wishing I had a writing buddy, someone who I consistently got together with and did the writing part of my day. Maybe this is something I can find in my friends at school. Or maybe even with my writer friends. The point is that we support each other in meeting our goal of writing consistently, not that we talk or be writing about anything that is similar. If you’re interested let’s talk!
For now back to the solitary writing, going to try and get a draft of the prospectus sketched out before sleep.