Notes of the day

Linguistics paper on incubation as part of the writing process (found by link-surfing from worldserpent). The subject happens to be uppermost in my mind since I just started my blind_go story today. ^^; I'm gradually coming to terms with the fact that this is the way my brain works: spending one month thinking about a topic and one week writing is more efficient than spending five weeks trying to write and failing. For one thing, one feels a lot better having spent the past month "incubating" rather than "struggling with writer's block", even if they are technically the same thing (and I suspect they are, in a lot of cases).

Most of the other publications on the site are worth a read if one's interested in topics like language acquisition or literacy (aren't we all).

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Today I attended a seminar on e-marketing. The Gears of War trailer was used as a demo. Verily it must be easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a marketing executive to enter into Fandom - was my first reaction, anyway. OTOH someone who didn't at all grok fandom and fannish motivation would make for a pretty clueless marketer in this day and age, which come to think of it probably contributes to all the clueless marketing fans are used to seeing. But can one argue that more fans should become marketing execs in order to... provide fans with the marketing they deserve? XDD On a personal basis it would be like the aca-fan dilemma only more toxic.

Anyway I thought that was going to be the scary Lex Luthor content for the day, but then I went to the HR seminar on recruitment and retention practices. XD;;

(When I write about b-school I keep typing out stuff and deleting it. It's hard to tell what's relevant for recording purposes, I guess, or for that matter what's revealing.)

In other news: SSBB submission deadline falls halfway through midterm week. CHARMING. Though it serves as good incentive not to fall prey to the temptation of doing all the work again. XD