Views and reviews for learning

I have transplanted myself to a house that I know, away from routines, close to memories, a space for striving and racing forward with my writing. This is a space for spreading out, making a mess, re-reading the literature, exploring new literature, re-thinking, re-positioning, destabilising what I thought I had contained.

A literature review is always in flux, expanding, with new openings and possible beginnings. I am attempting to link my readings to my thesis, draw the strands together, make my meaning clear, return from tangential wanderings back to the core, the centre piece, the thesis.

Writing a literature review is a complex, messy, enlightening, humbling, necessary process of learning.

On tools and toil

This is a picture of some of the physical tools I use for my writing.  I use old and new technologies to support the writing process.  My writing and my thinking go hand in hand.  Writing leads to thinking, and thinking leads to writing. I print frequently, re-read drafts, edit on paper, transfer edits to computer files, print, do some indoor or outdoor jobs as a distraction, count up my words, think, continue...  It is useful for me to have uninterrupted time to make progress.

I put a lot of effort and toil into my studies, and everything I do.  Writing is work. Let us honour it!