I wish it was possible to read and write while doing puppy-related things.
I’d like to write more on the following. At some point.
The Gypsy Librarian‘s recent post, You need to keep up with the disciplines, has got me thinking. Also spotted an article in the latest issue of the Journal of Academic Librarianship, on keeping up: “Academic Librarians, Professional Literature, and New Technologies: A Survey”. (I’d like to read the whole issue, actually.)
T. Scott‘s post, Slow writing, makes me want to sit and scribble, doodle, contemplate.
When I was in my teens, writing by hand, or even at the typewriter, frustrated me because I couldn’t get the words out as fast as they seemed to be forming in my mind. In the late eighties, when I was able to write with a computer on a regular basis, I thought, at first, that this was much better — but I found, instead, that I became sloppy. When you’re not forced to slow down, and carefully choose every word, then any word will do. And when you’re not being careful about the words you choose, you’re not forced to be careful about your thinking. Hence the very sloppy thinking that permeates most blogs.
Then there’s reading, not reading; or, when do you decide to abandon a book? See Rebecca Blood‘s Another reader’s manifesto.
(Rebecca’s also pointed to a post entitled Seven ways to find the time to blog.)
And then there’s that language post…