Friday, March 23, 2007

Write Authentically until it sings the Truth you Hope to Tell


Due to technological issues, I havent blogged in many months..Its given a little space to grow. Lots of physical, spiritual and academic changes have occurred, and in many ways I feel like a new person: Off the pill, off the anti-depressant. I feel clear again, and able to work with energy. I am now in the stages of writing the dissertation. I spent January to MArch brooding over the completion my Lit review. It was like trying to make a cheesecake with charcoal.. In other words. I have tried to use my old lit review, written in a theoretical voice, to capture the real and authentic experience from an autoethnographic view. It doesnt work to cut and splice. I dont recommend this to anyone. REWRITE the WHOLE THING.... It will feel like you are in your own skin again. I now realize how important the writing process is. Its not a matter of just writing up the research.. Its a daily relationship with the content.. a meditative act of restorying and re-mapping it until the content sings the truth you hope to tell.