This has been a pretty long stretch of silence for me on here. But offline, I’ve been getting some good work done on the article growing out of the paper I delivered at SHARP that I hope to have sent off to a journal before the fall semester comes. So that’s where my writing energy has gone, I guess. Outside of writing these entries, I find writing hard going, but I guess that’s true for just about everyone.
I leave for Georgia today to visit family and to do a bit of research at Emory University‘s libraries. Pitts Theology Library has a copy of the microform collection called “The People called Methodists,” which contains useful stuff for me. And the Special Collections and Archives at Woodruff Library has a lot of valuable material on Methodist History.
Best of all, I’ll get to see my homies, Chuck and Mike.
I might blog the trip, I might not. We’ll see.
And while this happened…
Another cool concept via Elouise and Jill: Tinka’s investigation and undoing of the paratexts of blogging. Tinka has already toyed with the author’s autobiography, but she also has dispensed with the date stamp on her entries. Her title for every…
Continuing fictionalization
This morning was devoted to backstory. Jill proposes fictionalizing herself, an interesting notion. So long as the “character” is consistent, who know the difference? Relationships, interconnections, events need not be real, but merely supported by cir…