{"id":11063,"date":"2017-09-24T00:15:07","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T05:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/?p=11063"},"modified":"2017-09-23T05:40:14","modified_gmt":"2017-09-23T10:40:14","slug":"timelessness-and-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/timelessness-and-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jose Bove was one of the early proponents of what would come to be called the Slow Food movement.<\/figcaption><\/figure>I'm at an interesting confluence of professional development methodologies. For the Xavier University Faculty Writing Group, the guiding premise is Just Do It\u2122 -- force yourself to write, even if only for 15 minutes a day. Squeeze it in however you can. (I've been pushing myself to do 30 minutes.) This makes sense; it's the same advice I was given as a creative writing graduate student; it's the same advice you get from any successful writer: write every day no matter what. But I'm also in a book club that is currently reading and discussion The Slow Professor<\/i> by Maggie Berg and Barbara Seeber<\/a>, a book that attempts to embrace the ideals of the Slow movement<\/a> while living the life of the modern academic. Berg and Seeger, I think, would not agree with the Just Do It\u2122 premise of my writing group.<\/p>\n

Berg and Seeger argue for a greater mindfullness of our time, even if they never use that particular language. They argue for faculty to incorporate into their lives what they call \"timeless time,\" sessions that are purposefully (mindfully) organized in order to allow us to focus wholly and completely on an activity... an activity like writing. According to Berg and Seeger, a session of \"timeless time\" requires several things of us:<\/p>\n