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By: gym. consultations. outreach. repeat. #libday6 « lyndamk

gym. consultations. outreach. repeat. #libday6 « lyndamk — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 23:43:37 +0000

[...] 3:00-3:30: Agraphia group. Our untenured library faculty have a writing support group. Read more about Paul Silvia’s idea in my previous post. [...]

By: Susan

Susan — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 20:13:32 +0000

Nice blog, missy! And a great review of Silvia’s book — I agree with you on all counts. One of the major “Agraphia” selling points (to those of us who would rather light our hair on fire than sit through most meetings) is his recommendation that the meetings be brief — mostly just a listing of goals and accounting of whether or not previous goals have been met.

He also provided a short but effective section on correcting the sort of calcified, over-academic, nonsense-word-using style that a lot of us fall into in graduate school. I’m fantasizing a revolution w/in academia based on his calling that style out for what it is: fear of sounding like an idiot, and lack of concrete writing skills (which might be taught in graduate school someday, as he suggests).

Does blog-commenting count toward my writing time today? Hmm…

susan

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 17:01:16 +0000

Hi Lynda,
Glad to see you’ve got a nice blog up and running.

I haven’t read How to Write a Lot, but it sounds like a title right up my alley, and I’m adding it to my GoodReads-ToRead list right away and expect I’ll pick up a copy soon.

The idea of writing regularly and often to improve craft is not a new one to me, but reinforcement of the concept never hurts. This is one of the same reasons I started my own blog a while back, but if you were to examine the recent frequency of my posts you would note that I haven’t been especially prolific. I also have not been very good about setting regular weekly writing goals.

Anyway, good luck with your own writing endeavors and this blog and thanks for the unexpected bit of inspiration today that hopefully will steer me back on my own writing track, even if that track isn’t headed to “libraryland”.

Brian

By: Let’s get it started « lyndamk

Let’s get it started « lyndamk — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:09:33 +0000

[...] initiated after reading How to Write a Lot by Paul Silvia, a prof at our university. You can read my short review of it. One of his arguments–that writing is craft that must be practiced–is one that [...]