This past week, I taught 2 workshops, 1 for the Association of Iberian and Latin American Studies of Australasia (AILASA) and another one (over 2 days) for Rutgers University Newark’s School of Graduate Studies. During both workshops, I got asked the same question about fighting “writer’s block” (“Professor Pacheco-Vega, how do you fight Writer’s Block, what would be the easiest strategy to overcome it?”, and I answered with exactly the same strategy in both cases):
The trusty and humble “index card” and the memorandum.
A couple of index cards give me enough of a “kick start” to write a short memo on toilet insecurity and fieldwork, and the politics of toilet access in India. pic.twitter.com/KhFkHLomub
— Dr Raul Pacheco-Vega (@raulpacheco) April 5, 2021
Note how even writing two index cards can give me a strong enough “emotional boost” to compel me to write a memorandum.
My post on writing by memorandums. https://t.co/q3gEpJg5FB
My post on using Index Cards to take notes. https://t.co/UvtxuMGOZ1
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— Dr Raul Pacheco-Vega (@raulpacheco) April 5, 2021
Hopefully this blog post will be useful to you too.