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* Feeling that we didn't read enough
* Hard to start!
* Usually have the argument before writing
* Write in community: "London Writers Salon" (8pm, on zoom, meeting regularly)
* Pomodoro technique
* Rise And Shine (a group)
*Writing retreat
* Sciniver
*Having rituals: having the same tea cup, the lamp, lighting a scented candle, having a schedule base on how your brain is wired (8am-12pm writing; break and then admin stuff)
*Writing as a patchwork
*Book proposal is a different writing

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Writing as a researcher about ourselves/positionality 

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Writing as a researcher about ourselves/positionality 

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Following the first prompt by Heba about writing about our first interview

* In some cases, we don't spend time to think about ourselves, about our position as a researcher, as an "extractor",

* NO safeguard practices put in place by institution (no real training)

* Doing interviews as "conversations" rather than "interviews"

* Trauma/grief, no place for this in the institution: we are offered 5 therapy sessions!

* How the institution understand "science" and "research" = doesn't take into account embodied knowledge and other methods that are not recognised as "scientific"

* Institutional violence: is it better after the PHD? ==> we need to have a healthy distance from the start, because things are not going to get "better".

Leaving might be an option

We can't talk about this with relatives and friends: difficult to make sense of embodied experience with plp who are not doing what we do

* Diff between Germany and UK academia
* "Radicalising" through our research, our politics change through the research

*Writting proposals = "Lying" to the state? / we need to "lie" to the state/institution in order to have funding, visas, etc.

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What are the ways in which you believe academic writing practices can be harmful? How can we try to remedy that harm?

How do we resist the fiction of individual/isolated authorship?

How can we foster collectivity in our writing practices? Is it possible? Is that a way towards repair?

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"All the writers I admire, each different from the other, erect structures that offer refuge."

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"All the writers I admire, each different from the other, erect structures that offer refuge."

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- Amitava Kumar (2020) Everyday I Write the Book, p.66

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"Writing is a material practice. Our books can hold, like dirt, the marks of our struggle to put words on paper"

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"Writing is a material practice. Our books can hold, like dirt, the marks of our struggle to put words on paper"

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- Amitava Kumar (2020) Everyday I Write the Book, p.187

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to start: introduce yourself and share something about your relationship to writing

How does thinking about writing make you feel?

How does actually writing make you feel?

Is there anything you would like to share from your work in the writing session this morning?

Has your relationship to writing changed as a result of doing a PhD?

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Instead of trying to make lives “knowable”, how does our writing disrupt the structures that make lives unliveable?

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Instead of trying to make lives “knowable”, how does our writing disrupt the structures that make lives unliveable?

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- Gala Rexer (2022) "Words failed us: Repairing sociology’s haunted past means finding new language to write about the social world"

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What attracted you to this idea of writing as repair?

Do you think writing can be a reparative practice within academia?

When thinking about “writing as repair” is there a text (academic or not, fiction or non fiction, poetry) that comes to mind? Can you share what about it makes you feel that it is reparative?

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Do you think about form in your own academic writing?

How can challenging formal norms help us think about writing otherwise?

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What does reparative writing look like in the discipline you work in? Which specific questions does it bring up?

What if writing isn’t the answer, sometimes? How do we reckon with that?