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Oct. 9th, 2018 01:47 pm1.
When a Writer Can't Write: Studies in Writer's Block and Other Composing Problems by Mike Rose
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
This is a compilation of essays from the 8os that includes the usual suspects I've been encountering in my research into writing anxiety (such as Boice, Daly, Larson, etc). The essays are moderately interesting but nothing I'd urge someone who wasn't researching this topic to seek out. Boice's essay is probably the most interesting to me; he's a psychologist, and he talks about psychotherapies that he uses in his practice to treat blocked writers. He has them conduct automatic writing (which is more hardcore than just freewriting; it's in the spiritualist and Surrealist vein where they aren't looking at the paper they're writing on and they're being distracted by being read to so that everything they're writing is supposedly coming directly from the subconscious). I also liked the essays that have sample student essays and specific interventions that instructors used to help those students.
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2. I'm really looking forward to Yuletide. It's one of the only times of the year that I truly feel like a fan again.
3. Y'all, I am so exhausted. All the time. It sucks so hard. I'm going to bed at 8:45, 9:30 and waking up exhausted and staying exhausted all day. About 2 every day, I could just fall out and sleep until the next morning. I just went to my endo, so clearly there's Nothing Wrong with Me. It's just sapping my motivation to do anything. I'm still exercising every day, but it is so hard to make myself. Ditto work. *sigh*
4. Emma's sink is now leaking. Plumber coming today. At this rate, we'll have had to repair every damn sink in this house by Christmas. I'm fully expecting the AC to go next week followed by the eruption of a sinkhole in the living room floor.
5. Josh got a new phone, and Emma got her first phone this past weekend. Damn, have phones gotten expensive since the last time we bought them. Sheesh at the price gouging. I'm intending to keep my current phone until it is a brick. Dang.
When a Writer Can't Write: Studies in Writer's Block and Other Composing Problems by Mike RoseMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
This is a compilation of essays from the 8os that includes the usual suspects I've been encountering in my research into writing anxiety (such as Boice, Daly, Larson, etc). The essays are moderately interesting but nothing I'd urge someone who wasn't researching this topic to seek out. Boice's essay is probably the most interesting to me; he's a psychologist, and he talks about psychotherapies that he uses in his practice to treat blocked writers. He has them conduct automatic writing (which is more hardcore than just freewriting; it's in the spiritualist and Surrealist vein where they aren't looking at the paper they're writing on and they're being distracted by being read to so that everything they're writing is supposedly coming directly from the subconscious). I also liked the essays that have sample student essays and specific interventions that instructors used to help those students.
View all my reviews
2. I'm really looking forward to Yuletide. It's one of the only times of the year that I truly feel like a fan again.
3. Y'all, I am so exhausted. All the time. It sucks so hard. I'm going to bed at 8:45, 9:30 and waking up exhausted and staying exhausted all day. About 2 every day, I could just fall out and sleep until the next morning. I just went to my endo, so clearly there's Nothing Wrong with Me. It's just sapping my motivation to do anything. I'm still exercising every day, but it is so hard to make myself. Ditto work. *sigh*
4. Emma's sink is now leaking. Plumber coming today. At this rate, we'll have had to repair every damn sink in this house by Christmas. I'm fully expecting the AC to go next week followed by the eruption of a sinkhole in the living room floor.
5. Josh got a new phone, and Emma got her first phone this past weekend. Damn, have phones gotten expensive since the last time we bought them. Sheesh at the price gouging. I'm intending to keep my current phone until it is a brick. Dang.
