tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648409483330236099.post7719330662943176853..comments2024-03-27T21:39:27.170-07:00Comments on The Adventures of Notorious Ph.D., Girl Scholar: Letting goNotorious Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08700875559325201086noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648409483330236099.post-13435862373774023982008-02-21T10:54:00.000-08:002008-02-21T10:54:00.000-08:00You guys are fantastic. I think we have a paper h...You guys are fantastic. I think we have a paper here:<BR/><BR/>1. Muslim women in medieval Christian legal courts;<BR/><BR/>2. Struggles against death; <BR/><BR/>3. Invisible cathedrals;<BR/><BR/>4. Early Modern English men.<BR/><BR/>Now we need a suitably obfuscatory title.Notorious Ph.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08700875559325201086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648409483330236099.post-7657374213359981222008-02-19T07:29:00.000-08:002008-02-19T07:29:00.000-08:00Oh, one of my favorite "dump" files I called "dump...Oh, one of my favorite "dump" files I called "dump men", with lots of interesting stuff on men in early modern England. I'm sure there is some way of connecting that to Muslim women in Christian criminal courts. Or maybe children.Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09716705206734059708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648409483330236099.post-63394750014749291432008-02-19T02:55:00.000-08:002008-02-19T02:55:00.000-08:00I've got some nice stuff about glass and invisible...I've got some nice stuff about glass and invisible cathedrals in Australian literature.melihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10026675747253438229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648409483330236099.post-76939478646487407072008-02-18T16:36:00.000-08:002008-02-18T16:36:00.000-08:00I've got Virginia Woolf on biography and some misc...I've got Virginia Woolf on biography and some miscellaneous thoughts on privacy and struggles against death. That's just in the most recent file...Dr. Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05710707191216637159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648409483330236099.post-79550256813458378532008-02-18T06:59:00.000-08:002008-02-18T06:59:00.000-08:00"Murdering your babies" is good. In fact, if I li..."Murdering your babies" is good. In fact, if I like something a great deal, chances are it's overwritten, and it needs to go.<BR/><BR/>But I do like my orphans. And since so many of us have these, maybe we should take Belle's suggestion and just cobble them all together for one big, weird paper? Most recently, I've got children and work, and Muslim women in Christian criminal courts. What have you all got?Notorious Ph.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08700875559325201086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648409483330236099.post-63788466719861366302008-02-18T00:40:00.000-08:002008-02-18T00:40:00.000-08:00I keep an outtakes file for almost everything I wr...I keep an outtakes file for almost everything I write, just to keep it possible to move on. I almost never bring things back from the outtakes, but I also almost never delete those files. I'm also a big fan of creating a new copy of a file just so that I can hack away more freely at whatever I'm writing, knowing that I've still preserved the structure, &c., of the stage just before the hacking.<BR/><BR/>I've never really thought about it as murdering my babies, though I've often worried over whether my writings have more limbs and heads than they should...Dr. Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05710707191216637159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648409483330236099.post-56775484254963783582008-02-17T15:55:00.000-08:002008-02-17T15:55:00.000-08:00If we all gathered our 'murdered babies' together,...If we all gathered our 'murdered babies' together, would it make a bizarre anthology or what?<BR/><BR/>Like you, I did the whole research/write thing for 50 pages. It clarified my thinking, but it's sitting somewhere on a disk (yeah, 3/5" floppy) and I've never used it. Or even found a way to use it. But what I got from it? Use it all the time.Bellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10849272391043604637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648409483330236099.post-45359926222545849772008-02-17T09:43:00.000-08:002008-02-17T09:43:00.000-08:00I spent this whole post thinking "You didn't reall...I spent this whole post thinking "You didn't really *delete* it!" in horror.<BR/><BR/>I have a lot of files labeled "cut from chapter 6 version 5", rather than an orphans folder.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648409483330236099.post-88468944359688139332008-02-17T08:50:00.000-08:002008-02-17T08:50:00.000-08:00My undergrad creative writing professor called thi...My undergrad creative writing professor called this "murdering your babies," that is, you had to be willing to murder your babies, those things you loved but that really didn't contribute to the story as a whole. I doubt most academics love their prose as much as in the creative writing context, but oh, the work that went into it! So, yeah, it's a good thing (and I keep all those things, too! Actually, while I'm still drafting they tend to go to the foot of the paper just in case I need them - hope springs eternal!).<BR/><BR/>I told students the "murder your babies" thing once and they found it absolutely hysterical, I have no idea why. <BR/><BR/>Anyway, congrats on the progress!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com