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<\/a><\/p>\nMarch is National Reading Month, so I figured we should have a totally lit (see what I just did there?) TKUG. I have been working through a pretty heavy reading list this winter, so this month I am enjoying children\u2019s literature and my beloved Irish poets. My writing of late has consisted entirely of these weekly blog posts. Perhaps my fellow Sickies will inspire me. This is what is keeping some of the writers of Sick Pilgrim going this week:<\/p>\n
Mary Bishop shares, \u201cI know my friends love me because they send me books in the mail. In the past month I\u2019ve received two packages of books from friends\u2014I am rich indeed!\u201d<\/p>\n
Rebecca Bratten Weiss confesses, \u201cGetting to work on my Appalachian Gothic novel revisions as a reward at the end of my extremely long work days is the motivation for me to keep pushing onwards. I thought I was sick of that manuscript and had barely looked at it for a year. Now it\u2019s taken on new life. Lots of dark stuff going on in there.\u201d<\/p>\n
John Farrell finds himself, \u201cGetting back to my play after several distractions and other deadlines.\u201d<\/p>\n
Karl Persson, always thoughtful, always helpful shares his newly adopted strategy for getting some writing in: \u201cMaybe I could talk about my recent discovery of time-blocking \u2013 that is, committing a certain amount of fixed time slots weekly to writing\/research rather than having larger more abstract goals that never get done. I find it helps me to remember that writing is a bodied and quasi-contemplative activity needing time and space rather than merely ideals and aspirations. The person I\u2019m following who suggests time-blocking is Cal Newman who is a theorist in this area, but I feel like he\u2019s really just channeling for a modern audience the same kind of wisdom Benedictines know intuitively from their traditional work in prayer and writing\/scholarship. And setting aside this time really feels rewarding and like part of my vocation \u2013 if I don\u2019t do this, the entirety of my energy and time gets eaten up by teaching and committee work.<\/p>\n
I would be well served to take Karl\u2019s advice, though I know me. It\u2019s highly unlikely that I will.<\/p>\n
What is getting you writing (or reading) this week?<\/p>\n
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