Tourist in your own work
A good friend from Denmark is visiting these days. So taking time off work to show her around Bergen. It is interesting the way, you so quickly appropriate a city and start thinking of it as something familiar, as yours, which often means that you stop seeing it. And then someone new to the city comes along and notices things you never saw or just see through because you have seen them too often. And in an odd way you get to be a novel tourist again. Perhaps doing research, writing a ph.d. is not that different. At some point you stop seeing what is new in your work yourself, and everything you have to say seems mundane and trivial, too familiar. Until someone comes along and tells you that "hey, you are actually writing something useful here!" which boosts your mood immensely. Another reason why you should always share your writing with others, however sensitive you are about it. Re: Torill's comments on burn-outs.
# posted by Lisbeth at: 11:56