Tag Archives: Barbara Kamler

book writing/ half day seven

Posted on March 21, 2014 by pat thomson

Today was a little period of review before Barbara left. We had the option of going through everything we’d written in some detail, or just doing a brief reprise. We opted for the latter, adding into the text the various … Continue reading →

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book writing, day six

Posted on March 20, 2014 by pat thomson

Today we got up rather earlier than usual and were breakfasted and seated at the desk at 7.46 precisely. Yes, yes in pjs. It’s a habit now. We were pretty determined to break the back of the last section by … Continue reading →

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book writing, day five

Posted on March 19, 2014 by pat thomson

The brain is a wonderful thing. I woke up this morning knowing what was wrong with our first chunk. I’d been feeling dissatisfied with it since we started, but hadn’t been able to put my finger on what the problem … Continue reading →

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book writing, day four

Posted on March 18, 2014 by pat thomson

Yippee. Today we wrote 3118 words, about half of the first chunk of the book. There are six or seven chunks in total, some of them much longer than this first one. We began writing quite early today, at around … Continue reading →

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book writing, day three

Posted on March 17, 2014 by pat thomson

It was a pj kind of day. That’s a day where you eat breakfast , but don’t actually get out of your nightgear until you’ve done a substantial slab of writing. So picture us sitting side by side, a bit … Continue reading →

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book writing, day two

Posted on March 16, 2014 by pat thomson

Well, it’s always about getting started. Despite knowing yesterday what we wanted to say today, we didn’t quite know how it was going to go. Overnight I had the idea that it would be good to go back to the … Continue reading →

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book writing, day one

Posted on March 15, 2014 by pat thomson

Barbara and I are writing again. I’ve decided to blog about the process that we use, largely because you don’t often see people talking about their actual writing practices. I hope some of you find it of interest. Where are … Continue reading →

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a reflection on working collaboratively

Posted on August 13, 2012 by pat thomson

I recently led a discussion on ECRchat about working collaboratively. A lot of the discussion was about how you find people to work with and what you need to do to set it up. Of course not everyone wants to … Continue reading →

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