Pantsers, Pantsing, Procrastination
So...while summer is not yet upon us in the academic year (marking and exams have just begun at my university), my writing deadlines loom enormous over the summer timetable I have yet to create. Last autumn passed in an unexpected whirlwind of writing, with a last-minute request to submit a chapter on Cathy Park Hong's Dance Dance Revolution (specifically related to how she the Historian braids the narrative sections in this text) for a De Gruyter edited collection as part of their Narratologia series. I had finally begun to crack through the theoretical groundwork for my monograph's introductory chapter and the request from my research group to submit for the Narratologia book caused me some pause and moving around things in my diary before I (tentatively) accepted. The flurry of writing that ensued shocked me and, looking back now, I am surprised to see that I managed to write an 8k word chapter in a mere six weeks. Six weeks! Normally in a six-week time span I have an ave...
