The Australian Association of Writing Programs

Welcome as final student editor for 2009, Natalie. The AAWP Conference is always stimulating (and a great party too). Luckily this site allows us to maintain our networks and keep abreast of each other's research work. It is getting very close to Xmas and I have a final draft of paper before sendinng to Gail. Then there is my exegesis needing to be whipped into formal shape before the New Year dawns. Oh dear, can someone extend my days with extra hours and top up my energy levels whilst at it. I hope I can keep typing into this blog as the year draws to a close.

Just thought I would let everybody know that the University of Sydney is offering a grant for to attend a Conference on Patrick White in London next year.

Modernist impact/Critical futures
23-25 June 2010
Institute of English Studies University of London

Call for papers

I've just got to reading Janene's pdf (*reminder to get it into the Resources section*) and appreciating what a useful block of data it is. Janene, was your AAWP talk concerned with interpretation of the data? i look forward to its publication in the coming e-book (any idea when that will be out?). 

I’ve put off writing on
this topic in previous weeks for fear of alienating readers who may not have
the headspace to consider life beyond PhD at this stage. But, I’ve been for my
inspirational walk around the garden and my head stubbornly remains here, which
is after all where I am; so I do hope this is not in poor taste. I submitted my
thesis one year ago; I was ‘admitted to the degree’ nine months ago; this will
be a brief report from the other side.

Cecil B. de Mille 

Rather against his will                       

Was persuaded to leave
Moses                  

I'd like to pick up on the discussions around 'writer's block' and strategies for coping with the need to be constantly productive during the course of one's postgraduate studies. This isn't a problem for everyone. it was for me, and i'll come to some strategies that i found useful in a moment. 

The Members page of this site usefully tells me that i have been a member of APWN for 1 year and 3 days, and in all this time i've not felt inspired to begin a blog nor respond to anyone else's content. Clearly, given that there are plenty who have and do, this is my problem. But what if there are others like me? What does it take to provoke a written response?