Hi Alison. Please take care of yourself as you reach these final stages of your manuscript. I'm sure you will get there okay. I like the phrase "Trust emergence". So often when we write it is from hunches and we have to trust that eventually we can stitch them together with integrity.
Apr 13, 2022·edited Apr 13, 2022Liked by Alison Acheson
The difference between knowing and knowing about is perhaps the reason why it took me three decades to start writing creatively, freely, without pedagogical intent. (My only 'literary' pieces in those three decades were short texts for my language-teaching courses: the day job.) The curse of studying literature, for me, was being too conscious of technique to write any.
Going back those 30 years, I remember the feeling as I brought my doctoral research to a close: of having a world in my head that no-one else had the faintest inkling of. It was a great relief to get it out of my head and into a 300-page thesis. I guess that's akin to where you're at now.
Then we send our baby out into the world and hope for the best. Feeling hopeful and maybe slightly bereft?
Courage and peace to you, too, Alison. Thank you for this.
Thank you Alison. This is so nourishing.
Hi Alison. Please take care of yourself as you reach these final stages of your manuscript. I'm sure you will get there okay. I like the phrase "Trust emergence". So often when we write it is from hunches and we have to trust that eventually we can stitch them together with integrity.
The difference between knowing and knowing about is perhaps the reason why it took me three decades to start writing creatively, freely, without pedagogical intent. (My only 'literary' pieces in those three decades were short texts for my language-teaching courses: the day job.) The curse of studying literature, for me, was being too conscious of technique to write any.
Going back those 30 years, I remember the feeling as I brought my doctoral research to a close: of having a world in my head that no-one else had the faintest inkling of. It was a great relief to get it out of my head and into a 300-page thesis. I guess that's akin to where you're at now.
Then we send our baby out into the world and hope for the best. Feeling hopeful and maybe slightly bereft?