writing up papers

[HV Psychodrama]

One of the challenges I have in writing is trying to decide who my audience 
is. Other psychodramatists, therapists who have no psychodrama experience, 
creative arts therapists.
The other challenge has always been time but!!! I am giving up two days a 
week at the hospital where I work, and am hoping to begin writing in the new 
year. I am writing it here as a sign of my commitment.
  This is not an invitation to nudge me, Adam!!!!:-)
Rebecca
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Adam Blatner" <adam at blatner.com>
To: "Peter Howie" <peterhowie at macquariehouse.com.au>; 
<list at grouptalkweb.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 4:53 PM
Subject: writing up papers


> Dear Peter, thanks for your feedback. I was intrigued with your final 
> paragraph: PH: "I
> think writers revert to the stage of the double and really need some 
> decent effective
> doubling type assistance to overcome some of this early stuff which saps 
> conviction,
> undermines knowingness and confidence and bring up fears and worries."
>
>      So, in the role of an editor, what specifically would you do? Or how 
> would you teach
> consulting editors how to respond to submitted papers?
>
>      I sent in a previous response to listserve about how I imagine 
> editing---the idea of
> running a paper by someone as a preliminary, getting feedback and using it 
> to revise...
> but no one responded to me.
>      There's two sides to this dance. Even if the editors were optimally, 
> perfectly
> encouraging, there's still a gap of time and space---rather than my direct 
> physical
> presence--- so that the writer of the paper can lapse into the illusion / 
> delusion that it
> doesn't matter, no one cares, and other rationalizations for a basic 
> unwillingness to get
> back into the writing and revising process. Could that be happening?
>
>       And maybe it's a dance that includes people being encouraged 
> repeatedly, warmed up,
> as it were, to the challenge of wrestling, knowing that it will be drawn 
> forward. There's
> work, and then after the review, more work, but it's also worthwhile.
>
> What do you think?  Or others?
>
>          Warmly, Adam
>
>
>
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