I am hitting some real shoals on this piece. It was to have been finished in a few days but this is not possible. Typically I finish one thing and then start the next but I am going to stagger this piece with the next one, but in such a way as not to get fragmented or scattered. That is: since it is not realistic to finish this piece on the designated day, I will not try. I will just keep going. In the meantime I will also start the new piece on its designated day.
I always knew people did this, and in retrospect I see I used to do it, although it was so natural I did not realize it. Then I froze, as we know, when I was assigned a project I could not see how to get out of doing, but did not want to sign my name to. After that I have only forced myself to write things. I have not written them in any sort of spontaneous or organic way, so I have been very linear.
Now, however, I am going to be writing two pieces at once, and they will be at different stages. I can already see that I like it.
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Also: I have spammed a couple of comments from (I am sure) men who want to give condescending Boicean advice on “writing” and “time management.” They do not realize I have a dissertation and a vita, and more and different experience than they do. I think they are assistant professors, although one (I know who it is) is a Full who retired, he says, because he did not believe a word of anything he had published or was teaching and was only being a professor because he did not know what else to do.
Well, I am only being a professor because I have not yet figured out how to pay for law school, but I will be God damned if I do not use my own professional judgment or do things in the mechanical and superficial way this Full both resents and advocates. As for those callow Boicean worms, I am not talking as a non-writer. They should be quiet and take their own advice.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 