Relearning to Write

August 29, 2014
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Annette
August 29, 2014 3:56 pm

Yay for standing desk!! I do most of my writing this way now. I find my mind less apt to wander, perhaps because it takes all my concentration to both stand and write at the same time. I had to work up to it, but now I do 3-4h at a stretch. Good luck with it and with relieving your pain!

Collin
August 29, 2014 4:02 pm

3-4 hours is unimaginable to me at this point! You are my writing idol. It’s all I can do to force myself to stand still until I reach the end of this sentence.

(Okay, it’s not quite that bad.)

cgb

Tim Richardson
August 29, 2014 7:19 pm

I love my standing desk, but a summer away means I’m having to get back into shape for it. That mat is a must, btw.

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Hey there. I'm Collin Gifford Brooke, and I'm currently an Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Writing at Syracuse University. I'm a digital humanities person, back from before there was a digital humanities. I wrote a book called Lingua Fracta: Towards a Rhetoric of New Media, about how new media changes the ways we think about rhetoric and writing and which uses the five canons of rhetoric to think about new media. I'm interested in games, streams, networks, objects, genres, memes, and stuff. Oh, and words. Lots and lots of words.

I started blogging back in 2003, on a site called Collin vs Blog, where I banged out close to a thousand entries over the course of about 5 years. For a few different reasons, I stopped, and after a couple of different false starts, I relocated here, where I'm hoping to pick up some of my old site's momentum, start archiving myself better, and return to writing on a daily basis.