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Planned Obsolescence » Blog Archive » Managed and Unmanaged — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 21:52:41 +0000

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By: KF

KF — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 14:49:55 +0000

E., if I could tell you the number of times in the course of getting from the earliest stages of the diss to the final printed book that I read some passage and thought one of two things:

1) Did I write that? It’s actually pretty smart!

2) Jesus, who wrote *that*?

I wonder if the ability to forget what you wrote is somehow related to the body’s ostensible inability to remember pain—a defense mechanism of sorts that allows you to return to the material somewhat fresh, letting you read and revise it as if it really were someone else’s…

By: e. fiction

e. fiction — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 01:24:08 +0000

Is it normal to write a full dissertation chapter, then look at it a few months later only to have no recollection of having written it (let alone any idea what the chapter is actually *about*)?

It’s kind of like driving along a familiar route while talking on the cell phone and afterwards not having any memories of having driven anywhere.

By: Erik

Erik — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 21:05:56 +0000

Argh. I hate that rusty feeling of coming back to writing after a prolonged period of procrastination. It does get easier with frequency, doesn’t it? But that’s the hard part. I like the no interactivity bit, because that’s where I get stuck, reading blogs and emails, and suddenly everything is an emergency and much more important than what I should be writing. Keep up the good work.

By: Francois Lachance

Francois Lachance — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:12:11 +0000

You go girl!
**waves brightly coloured pompoms**

How much of it is the need to “reread”?

Could some of it be a need to repicture?

You mention the article taking shape. Is it a square, a sine curve, a gently sloping line?

I ask because I suspect the shape taking has an impact on how much rereading really needs to be done.