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An Innocent Abroad: Home for the summer
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Monday, 22 June 2015. Home for the summer. The plant that could not be killed. I had thought that by the time I got to be this old I'd be done with the whole student move-out-for-the-summer-move-back-when-school-starts thing. Oh well. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Just another day of revision. Home for the summer. Excessive, joyous squealing. Simple template. Template images by enjoynz.
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An Innocent Abroad: January 2015
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Saturday, 24 January 2015. Monday tips us squarely into Week 3 of the undergrad academic calendar and my maiden experience of teaching undergrads in a UK university. Strangely enough, it is neither very different from what I imagined nor from what I've done other places, other times, with other students; the biggest surprise was that the Creative Writing students all but refuse to speak, while the critical students appear to have an abject horror of silence. Wednesday, 14 January 2015. I have read this b...
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An Innocent Abroad: Just another day of revision...
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Friday, 26 June 2015. Just another day of revision. And Combatting Cult Mind Control,. Two indispensable volumes for the modern reader. Drugs don't get much of a look-in this time because I did way more research than was really necessary for The Shore. And I have the kind of freaky memory that can't recall my spouse's birthday but can perfectly recall useless information from years ago. Labels: dancing the fact-check fandango. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Just another day of revision.
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An Innocent Abroad: Little joys
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Tuesday, 7 July 2015. If you want to know how I did it before, the answer is 'messily' - given the viscosity of ink, a single drop is too big to fit through the hole in a standard cartridge. From there, it was only a matter of time before I realised that this would let me really. Probably. Does it let me write for several hours at a stretch without a break? Definitely. Do I have a fountain pen problem? Labels: tools of the trade. 8 July 2015 at 17:56. This comment has been removed by the author.
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An Innocent Abroad: A sense of an ending
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Friday, 3 July 2015. A sense of an ending. The little tan one has notes and chronologies and things, because I learned my lesson with The Shore. Which was a bit of a surprise, because I'd abandoned it several times over the course of the first draft. And then in September 2014 I managed to turn it into this:. It was only when I finished that I realised that this one has no death and hardly any graphic violence. And now to finished book number three! Labels: The next novel. Houston, we have achieved orbit.
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An Innocent Abroad: February 2015
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Friday, 27 February 2015. After roughly a year of keeping my eyes peeled for conferences into which my subfield could logically be shoehorned and turning up approximately zilch, my supervisor put up her hands and declared that I might as well stop worrying myself and try for publication instead. There aren't loads of journals out there to which my work is especially suited (Religion? Also kinda. Censorship? Whose work is probably going to turn into yet another form of procrastination. I had copies of the...
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An Innocent Abroad: June 2015
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Friday, 26 June 2015. Just another day of revision. And Combatting Cult Mind Control,. Two indispensable volumes for the modern reader. Drugs don't get much of a look-in this time because I did way more research than was really necessary for The Shore. And I have the kind of freaky memory that can't recall my spouse's birthday but can perfectly recall useless information from years ago. Labels: dancing the fact-check fandango. Tuesday, 23 June 2015. Labels: Figuring it out. Monday, 22 June 2015. Ali Smit...
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An Innocent Abroad: December 2014
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Thursday, 11 December 2014. This morning, a box came. And inside it were these:. I'll be off in the corner doing the mad scientist laugh for a little while. Labels: Ill show them all! Wednesday, 10 December 2014. I don't own a blue hi-lighter. If that looks green to you, consider adjusting your monitor settings. And then I looked more closely at the places that I could have sworn I had already marked up. Do you see the little elfin footprints that are all that remain of my notes? Tuesday, 2 December 2014.
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An Innocent Abroad: September 2014
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Friday, 26 September 2014. A bit about censorship for Banned Book Week. I realized on Monday that it was Banned Book Week, and, given the nature of my work, I decided that I really should put something out into the world related to censorship. To reduce the past year's research into a few bullet points:. 1 Textbooks must conform to certain sets of content guidelines if they are going to be printed or bought by schools. So, with just a bit of commentary, here are some real textbook guidelines that have ma...