tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7366909960546184927.post1645606953948835958..comments2023-06-11T02:19:27.429-07:00Comments on Academic Cog: "In the Pipeline"Sisyphushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09880634753539329199noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7366909960546184927.post-47050313118219834502007-07-16T07:45:00.000-07:002007-07-16T07:45:00.000-07:00Re: edition: yep. That was the transcription proje...Re: edition: yep. That was the transcription project I was doing in the U.K. It's a little back-burner-y right now, but at least it's far enough along that I feel okay about having it on the CV and claiming to be working on it!<BR/><BR/>Re: deadlines: sometimes they don't have to be hard-and-fast deadlines, as with a conference, although even there you can give yourself non-binding deadlines. <BR/><BR/>For example, tell your advisor or other authority-ish figure about a new project you're interested in, and that you'd love for him/her to take a look at it when you have a draft--and that you expect to get one done by, say, early September. Your advisor probably couldn't give a shit if you do it or not or by when, but if you're like me you'll start to feel a nagging sense of obligation and will get it done by early October just so you don't feel like a total loser. <BR/><BR/>Sometimes just telling people about a new idea (based on an abstract, say) is a way of making it feel real and at least interesting. Ditto for starting the research on a new project, however idly--photocopy a bunch of new articles/book chapters, assemble some notes and a working bibliography, and put it all in a labled file folder that your eye will be caught by occasionally. Or write a pre-emptive abstract.<BR/><BR/>And finally, once you've done some of those things, remember <A HREF="http://feruleandfescue.blogspot.com/2006/08/greater-productivity-through.html" REL="nofollow">this lesson</A> that I learned last summer: sometimes ANY project looks more appealing than the one you're currently "supposed" to be working on!Flaviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17832765671541392835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7366909960546184927.post-52961227518256826722007-07-15T22:23:00.000-07:002007-07-15T22:23:00.000-07:00Flavia: when you say you have an edition, does tha...Flavia: when you say you have an edition, does that mean you're editing and doing the notes stuff for a fancy and old text? Cool. I don't know how well the deadline thing will work for me, as I sometimes freeze under deadlines, and I hate traveling, so not being done when getting on that plane can be _extremely_ anxiety producing. <BR/><BR/>JB: really, I could try the whole create-a-deadline thing for myself if I didn't keep looking up conferences and going, "whoops, missed that submission date by a month too!" Ah well.<BR/><BR/>Porpentine (I still love that word): I'm told that ignorance _is_ bliss. However, there's always the cold-water shock of knowledge washing over you as you realize what you have forgotten.Sisyphushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09880634753539329199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7366909960546184927.post-79698254477042778022007-07-15T11:26:00.000-07:002007-07-15T11:26:00.000-07:00Does this mean that it helps to be deaf, dumb, and...Does this mean that it helps to be deaf, dumb, and blind?Fretful Porpentinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11165078003123517013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7366909960546184927.post-81392884125534533342007-07-14T15:51:00.000-07:002007-07-14T15:51:00.000-07:00I don't have any advice, being a little too new to...I don't have any advice, being a little too new to and too overwhelmed by the very pinballing you describe (great metaphor, by the way!). What I'm hoping will work for me, though, is the forced-deadline thing that Flavia mentioned. It's worked with conference papers in the past, so even though I know that this year is going to be All About Teaching, I do have to write a paper for a conference in November. And, because I have to write it (even though it's on a mostly-new-to-me topic!), I know that I *will* write it, for better or worse. But beyond that? I have no idea.heu mihihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08529298049179816825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7366909960546184927.post-78439445966162911152007-07-14T13:18:00.000-07:002007-07-14T13:18:00.000-07:00It does get easier. I remember being totally baffl...It does get easier. I remember being totally baffled as to how anyone could already be thinking about a <I>second</I> book, or unrelated articles or conference papers, when the diss was such an all-consuming and unfinished monster (even if done as a diss, it's not done as a book!), and I'm kind of not sure how it is that I now have an edition and an idea for a second monograph and two or three totally new conference presentations/possible articles percolating.<BR/><BR/>But actually, I do know, and this might be useful to you: first, none of them is <I>totally</I> unrelated to my diss. Some are on the same authors, but different works. Some are on material that I might or might not add to the MS eventually. <BR/><BR/>I think that you just decide you want/need to go to X conference, and then set aside the time to research/write up an abstract. If it's accepted. . . well, then you <I>have</I> to write something! And once you've written 8-10 pages, why not an article? It's all about forcing deadlines upon yourself. Independent motivation? Not so much.Flaviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17832765671541392835noreply@blogger.com