post workshop thoughts...
i was left with romney's comment about feeling as if she needed another six months. and then kristen joking about the extention. and then jessea saying that there will be too much rewriting to do as a result of workshop method. and then scott saying if it ain't broke don't fix it. (which is true.)
and then i thought about how when i was working on my dissertation i would take it to the guy who wrote a book on dickinson and he would say add more dickinson. and i would take it to the woman who wrote on whitman and she would say you need to add whitman. etc. a lot of comments end up being well here is what i would do. there is something in this story here about staying true to what one wants to do or needs to do. but even if one does this, one can take this information and just ignore it or one can think about why one doesn't want to do this. and the second is probably more useful.
and we saw that sort of here is what i would do response in workshop several times. like dennis's claim that he was writing between romney's poem to write a poem that he would write. and i was thinking that this is one way that one might be a reader of someone's work (and not, as a cynic might say, just dennis making romney's work into his own).
and we might as a class want to think not only about how to celebrate what we like in the work but also how to discuss in the procedures how we read the work.
and also to think about what sort of procedures the work takes us to.
but also, i think there is something to be learned from hearing one's poem rewritten in the opposite of how one writes. one can learn how people read. and one can learn the stereotype of one's work. but one is also forced to think, no that is not for me, and then after that why? which might be the big question. why one does what one does. or why one hates the excessive version of the poem someone else has rewritten. or etc.
anyway, good work today. but also think it is good idea to keep thinking about what the author might need as much as we can.
but back to six months... a thesis is a draft. a somewhat finished draft but probably not the last draft. so it makes sense to work on it and get it as good as possible (you just might have more time to devote to it now than you will in the future) but it also might make sense to think about how to rewrite it after it is turned in also.
i was left with romney's comment about feeling as if she needed another six months. and then kristen joking about the extention. and then jessea saying that there will be too much rewriting to do as a result of workshop method. and then scott saying if it ain't broke don't fix it. (which is true.)
and then i thought about how when i was working on my dissertation i would take it to the guy who wrote a book on dickinson and he would say add more dickinson. and i would take it to the woman who wrote on whitman and she would say you need to add whitman. etc. a lot of comments end up being well here is what i would do. there is something in this story here about staying true to what one wants to do or needs to do. but even if one does this, one can take this information and just ignore it or one can think about why one doesn't want to do this. and the second is probably more useful.
and we saw that sort of here is what i would do response in workshop several times. like dennis's claim that he was writing between romney's poem to write a poem that he would write. and i was thinking that this is one way that one might be a reader of someone's work (and not, as a cynic might say, just dennis making romney's work into his own).
and we might as a class want to think not only about how to celebrate what we like in the work but also how to discuss in the procedures how we read the work.
and also to think about what sort of procedures the work takes us to.
but also, i think there is something to be learned from hearing one's poem rewritten in the opposite of how one writes. one can learn how people read. and one can learn the stereotype of one's work. but one is also forced to think, no that is not for me, and then after that why? which might be the big question. why one does what one does. or why one hates the excessive version of the poem someone else has rewritten. or etc.
anyway, good work today. but also think it is good idea to keep thinking about what the author might need as much as we can.
but back to six months... a thesis is a draft. a somewhat finished draft but probably not the last draft. so it makes sense to work on it and get it as good as possible (you just might have more time to devote to it now than you will in the future) but it also might make sense to think about how to rewrite it after it is turned in also.
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