There are times when the universe really hammers home a message, and this week it was the above, “writing IS thinking.” I hate to write. Almost every academic I know hates to write. I regularly taunt myself with “Monday Motivators” and writing challenges. And then someone smart said, “Do you have to write?” Do I? At a specific time? In a specific way? To a specific deadline? … well, no.
I think that for me writing could be more profitably about finishing a thought and putting it out into the universe in some small way – so here we go …