For a long time, I’ve felt that the pressure to produce MORE publications – more Things To Count, since the system as it is now uses quantitative methods to establish quality of academics – is doing everyone a disservice, with lots of half-formed publications seeing the light of day.* In this publish or(/and) perish world, […]
Tag Archives: writing
vanitas, vanitas
From: Wild, Kate. Review of Olga Timofeeva and Tanja Säily (eds.). 2011. Words in Dictionaries and History: Essays in honour of R.W. McConchie, [Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice 14]. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. In: International Journal of Lexicography 24(4): 487-492.
Wise words
“If you only write when inspired you may be a fairly decent poet but you’ll never be a novelist.” – Neil Gaiman ..argh. *sigh*
online presence
I still get a kick out of seeing myself on Google Books:
NaTheWriMo Day 30 and then some
I meant to post this before Christmas – got derailed for a couple of weeks after my last post (did finish revising the article!), but then got in a week’s worth of NaTheWriMoing before Christmas, so let’s pretend I wrote this wrap-up message then. Right. How did it go; how did I do? Let’s look […]
NaTheWriMo Day 24: Wrong month
This is really the wrong month for me to be doing a NaTheWriMo. What I’m doing atm is fiddling around with the specs of my edition – this includes lots of thinking about little things, namely how to represent manuscript feature X in my finished digital edition, and thus it involves less of the Writing […]
NaTheWriMo Day 18
Need more words. I think I’m aiming at 10k + 40k. NaTheWriMo November 2010 Day: 18 Word count: 4,085 Transcription word count: 24,400 Blog entries: 13
NaTheWriMo Day 16
Not all bad: my word tally remains painfully low, but then I was tweaking code all evening, and that went quite well, I think. TEI XML is a bugger to be sure, but on the other hand when you have a set of restrictions it is comfortably easy going – unlike writing, where the blank […]
NaTheWriMo Day 15: Pep talk needed
This is Neil’s pep talk to NaNoWriMoists. He’s right, of course. A journey of 50,000 words may start with a small step, but the point is that every step along the way is a small one: one little word at a time. Which is a relief of sorts. My word count, while quite a lot […]
NaTheWriMo Day 11
Better. Not much, but better. NaTheWriMo November 2010 Day: 11 Word count: 2,665 Transcription word count: 17,600 Blog entries: 10