Comments on: How I write http://www.makinghistorypodcast.com/2008/12/13/how-i-write/ Fri, 18 Feb 2011 02:06:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: smb http://www.makinghistorypodcast.com/2008/12/13/how-i-write/#comment-39 smb Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:10:40 +0000 http://makinghistorypodcast.com/?p=201#comment-39 Nice work, mb. I hate writing. Hate it. My revisions reach the scores on important papers. Sometimes I feel like I'm rendering JPEGs on Mosaic over a telephone line (remember that precursor to Mozilla/Netscape all those years ago?), with each pass slowly making things ever so slighly clearer. Drives me crazy. I much prefer writing epidemiology papers, where it's the methodology that drives the paper rather than the argument that unfolds as you write. But I love the thinking behind the history/humanities work. Nice work, mb. I hate writing. Hate it. My revisions reach the scores on important papers. Sometimes I feel like I’m rendering JPEGs on Mosaic over a telephone line (remember that precursor to Mozilla/Netscape all those years ago?), with each pass slowly making things ever so slighly clearer. Drives me crazy. I much prefer writing epidemiology papers, where it’s the methodology that drives the paper rather than the argument that unfolds as you write. But I love the thinking behind the history/humanities work.

]]> By: matt b http://www.makinghistorypodcast.com/2008/12/13/how-i-write/#comment-38 matt b Thu, 18 Dec 2008 06:59:13 +0000 http://makinghistorypodcast.com/?p=201#comment-38 No kidding, David. I am excited to learn more about Nicole and Keith's children myself. Honestly, it kind of surprises me when 1)you call this a 'methodology;' my writing feels far too disorganized for such a respectable term. And 2)when people credit me with productivity. I'm usually on myself for not producing more, generally after I've spent more time surfing the internet than writing on any given day. No kidding, David. I am excited to learn more about Nicole and Keith’s children myself.

Honestly, it kind of surprises me when 1)you call this a ‘methodology;’ my writing feels far too disorganized for such a respectable term. And 2)when people credit me with productivity. I’m usually on myself for not producing more, generally after I’ve spent more time surfing the internet than writing on any given day.

]]> By: David G. http://www.makinghistorypodcast.com/2008/12/13/how-i-write/#comment-37 David G. Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:02:00 +0000 http://makinghistorypodcast.com/?p=201#comment-37 Thanks, Matt. Given your productivity, I think all should give attention to your methodology. Thanks for sharing it with us. I do have say, though, that the most amusing part of this post isn't even something you wrote. I'm so glad that Wordpress dug up "Nicole Kidman @ Keith Urban might not sell baby pics" so I can learn more about how to improve my writing style! Thanks, Matt. Given your productivity, I think all should give attention to your methodology. Thanks for sharing it with us.

I do have say, though, that the most amusing part of this post isn’t even something you wrote. I’m so glad that WordPress dug up “Nicole Kidman @ Keith Urban might not sell baby pics” so I can learn more about how to improve my writing style!

]]> By: matt b http://www.makinghistorypodcast.com/2008/12/13/how-i-write/#comment-36 matt b Mon, 15 Dec 2008 07:20:05 +0000 http://makinghistorypodcast.com/?p=201#comment-36 Thanks, Christopher, for the kind words. It honestly does seem like somewhat of a messy process; I sometimes fantasize that other historians are so organized that they don't find themselves running to the library halfway through a paper to dig up an argument that they vaguely remember in a book they read two years ago for comps. But maybe they do. Thanks, Christopher, for the kind words. It honestly does seem like somewhat of a messy process; I sometimes fantasize that other historians are so organized that they don’t find themselves running to the library halfway through a paper to dig up an argument that they vaguely remember in a book they read two years ago for comps. But maybe they do.

]]> By: Christopher http://www.makinghistorypodcast.com/2008/12/13/how-i-write/#comment-35 Christopher Mon, 15 Dec 2008 07:04:15 +0000 http://makinghistorypodcast.com/?p=201#comment-35 Matt, My own writing process is quite similar to yours, which is encouraging to me since I admire so much of your writing. I am curious about this paper you're currently working on. Could you tell me more, either here or, if its too much of a threadjack, in a separate email? And I also have no clue how historians did any of this without the technology we benefit from today. Matt,

My own writing process is quite similar to yours, which is encouraging to me since I admire so much of your writing. I am curious about this paper you’re currently working on. Could you tell me more, either here or, if its too much of a threadjack, in a separate email?

And I also have no clue how historians did any of this without the technology we benefit from today.

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