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Tag Archives: plotting
Let’s Talk: Shaping Your Thesis for Publication
I began this blog with a short post on “Getting Published” http://www.jobs.ac.uk/blogs/language-and-literature/2011/04/27/let%E2%80%99s-talk-getting-published/. In that post I discussed the basic principles of why and how we as collective knowledge builders undertake this central scholarly activity. Today I would simply like to share some of my personal experiences of the difficult process of shaping a short 7000-8000 word article from my 95,000 word plus PhD thesis.
Tagged: being human, creative, critical, dialogue, doctorate, humanities, PhD, plotting, researcher, structure, writing
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World building with Mind Mapping
Generally, I use a text editor called, er, TextEdit to write on my Mac. There’s nothing but a simple white window, so I have fewer distractions. I found I needed a way to keep track of characters and locations, and … Read More
Tagged: application, creative, fiction, iphone, mindmap, mindmapping, plotting, structure, writing
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