{"id":10105,"date":"2024-05-13T15:35:21","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T20:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/adamscenter\/?p=10105"},"modified":"2024-05-13T15:38:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T20:38:38","slug":"writing-spring-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/adamscenter\/2024\/05\/13\/writing-spring-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Sprint Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_text]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Writing is not optional for academics. It\u2019s one of the key benchmarks for tenure and promotion. But how do you kickstart your writing and build successful writing rhythms and habits?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We often try a writing binge or attend a writing intensive. But, t<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">erms like \u201ccrash,\u201d \u201cbinge,\u201d or even \u201cintensive\u201d carry negative connotations of unsustainable and unhealthy work habits. By contrast, \u201csprint\u201d is a more appropriate word for a writing practice intended to motivate over a short period of time. It offers an energizing metaphor with an implied finish line.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Adams Center will host its inaugural writing sprint May 20-21, 2024. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/instead-of-a-writing-marathon-why-not-try-a-sprint?sra=true\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This brief article<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> explains the concept of a writing sprint quite well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a Spring session previewing the upcoming writing sprint, Dr. Shelly Sanders, Writer-in-Residence, shared some thoughts and insights about writing habits.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When writing, stop at a place where you\u2019re in the <\/span><b>middle<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of something rather than at the end of a thought so that when you resume writing, you can pick back up in an unfinished place.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Leave notes on your desk about each project to keep various writing projects separate, but at your fingertips.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Visualize: Summarize your end goal or main theme(s) in a couple words or even a simple line drawing and write it on a post-it note and stick it to your computer monitor or keyboard.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Make your mark: You have to start somewhere! \u201cIf a writer is any good, what he makes will have its source in a realm much larger than that which his conscious mind can encompass and will always be a greater surprise to him than it can ever be to his reader.\u201d Flannery O\u2019Connor<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Mystery and Manners<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hold tight to the tail of the tiger: \u201cSo how is the first sentence? It\u2019s good. It\u2019s okay for a reader, but I don\u2019t care, I can\u2019t even think that way here. It\u2019s good for the writer because it creates what I\u2019ll call inventory\u2013 there\u2019s something in it.. I\u2019m constantly looking for things that are going to help me find the next sentence, survive the story.\u201d Ron Carlson,<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Ron Carlson Writes a Story<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Staying in the Room: A Meditation, by Ron Carlson\u2026 \u201cThe most important thing a writer can do after completing a sentence is to stay in the room.\u201d \u201cThe writer is the person who stays in the room.\u201d <\/span>\u201c What will help you stay in the room? Two things: staying specific and not stopping. If I don\u2019t know the woman\u2019s name, I use Doris. For a man: Mickey. I\u2019ve been using Mickey and Doris in examples (and in first drafts) for 20 years. I specify all types of things; if I don\u2019t know the car, it\u2019s a Buick. I like the word Buick. To reach for your\u2026 thesaurus\u2026is a mistake. (Worse: Google\u2026) You aren\u2019t looking for the right name, you\u2019re looking for a reason to stop.\u201d<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Most Valuable 20 Minutes&#8230; also from Ron Carlson: \u201cAll the valuable writing I\u2019ve done in the past ten years has been done in the first twenty minutes after the first time I\u2019ve wanted to leave the room.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For more information or to RSVP for the Writing Sprint, please email Amy Boone at alb17a@acu.edu.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"et_pb_section et_pb_section_0 et_section_regular\" >\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"et_pb_row et_pb_row_0 et_pb_row_empty\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_text et_pb_text_0  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div> Writing is not optional for academics. It\u2019s one of the key benchmarks for tenure and promotion. But how do you kickstart your writing and build successful writing rhythms and habits?\u00a0 We often try a writing binge or attend a writing intensive. But, terms like \u201ccrash,\u201d \u201cbinge,\u201d or even \u201cintensive\u201d carry negative connotations of unsustainable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15697,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Writing is not optional for academics. It\u2019s one of the key benchmarks for tenure and promotion. But how do you kickstart your writing and build successful writing rhythms and habits?\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We often try a writing binge or attend a writing intensive. But, t<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">erms like \u201ccrash,\u201d \u201cbinge,\u201d or even \u201cintensive\u201d carry negative connotations of unsustainable and unhealthy work habits. By contrast, \u201csprint\u201d is a more appropriate word for a writing practice intended to motivate over a short period of time. It offers an energizing metaphor with an implied finish line.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Adams Center will host its inaugural writing sprint May 20-21, 2024. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/instead-of-a-writing-marathon-why-not-try-a-sprint?sra=true\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This brief article<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> explains the concept of a writing sprint quite well.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a Spring session previewing the upcoming writing sprint, Dr. Shelly Sanders, Writer-in-Residence, shared some thoughts and insights about writing habits.<\/span><\/p><ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When writing, stop at a place where you\u2019re in the <\/span><b>middle<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of something rather than at the end of a thought so that when you resume writing, you can pick back up in an unfinished place.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leave notes on your desk about each project to keep various writing projects separate, but at your fingertips.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Visualize: Summarize your end goal or main theme(s) in a couple words or even a simple line drawing and write it on a post-it note and stick it to your computer monitor or keyboard.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Make your mark: You have to start somewhere! \u201cIf a writer is any good, what he makes will have its source in a realm much larger than that which his conscious mind can encompass and will always be a greater surprise to him than it can ever be to his reader.\u201d Flannery O\u2019Connor<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Mystery and Manners<\/span><\/i><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hold tight to the tail of the tiger: \u201cSo how is the first sentence? It\u2019s good. It\u2019s okay for a reader, but I don\u2019t care, I can\u2019t even think that way here. It\u2019s good for the writer because it creates what I\u2019ll call inventory\u2013 there\u2019s something in it.. I\u2019m constantly looking for things that are going to help me find the next sentence, survive the story.\u201d Ron Carlson,<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Ron Carlson Writes a Story<\/span><\/i><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Staying in the Room: A Meditation, by Ron Carlson\u2026 \u201cThe most important thing a writer can do after completing a sentence is to stay in the room.\u201d \u201cThe writer is the person who stays in the room.\u201d <\/span>\u201c What will help you stay in the room? Two things: staying specific and not stopping. If I don\u2019t know the woman\u2019s name, I use Doris. For a man: Mickey. I\u2019ve been using Mickey and Doris in examples (and in first drafts) for 20 years. I specify all types of things; if I don\u2019t know the car, it\u2019s a Buick. I like the word Buick. To reach for your\u2026 thesaurus\u2026is a mistake. (Worse: Google\u2026) You aren\u2019t looking for the right name, you\u2019re looking for a reason to stop.\u201d<\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Most Valuable 20 Minutes... also from Ron Carlson: \u201cAll the valuable writing I\u2019ve done in the past ten years has been done in the first twenty minutes after the first time I\u2019ve wanted to leave the room.\u201d<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For more information or to RSVP for the Writing Sprint, please email Amy Boone at alb17a@acu.edu.<\/span><\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42238],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-10105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adams-blog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/adamscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/adamscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/adamscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/adamscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15697"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/adamscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/adamscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10108,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/adamscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10105\/revisions\/10108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/adamscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/adamscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/adamscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10105"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/adamscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=10105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}