Happy Academic Writing Month! (As opposed to the other eleven which are… oh, wait…) #AcWriMo is a massively-multiwriter mutual encouragement and accountability month-long writing session. Participants set writing goals and then try to complete them and keep people posted on social media, encouraging each other along the way. I don’t have the bandwidth to do the full-on social media version with people I don’t already interact with regularly, nor do I think that entering my writing goals into a Google Spreadsheet is a greater accountability measure than YOUR BOOK IS DUE TO THE PUBLISHER IN THREE MONTHS!, but since #AcWriMo coincides with the end of the blissful two-week break I gave myself from working on the book manuscript I’m going to play along a bit on the sidelines and use this as an opportunity to
- Write shorter sentences. (See above.)
- Finish fleshing out the Bible-in-Arabic chapter
- Write the associated conference paper
- Add additional context to the panorama of translators in the first chapter
Finish revising the libraries chapter- Start some of the reading for revising the last chapter in December
Last round of edits on the Thirteenth Century Chapter of DoomWrite at least one blog post about academic writing
Tedious updates will appear throughout the month below the jump.