Author: metaspencer
Added: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:22:42 -0800
Duration: 56

A post to the Video Writing Journal (tm) about some of the cool student writing I've been reading lately.

Author: metaspencer
Added: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:38:37 -0800
Duration: 67

A short video writing journal entry mentioning the joys of searching Google Patents, a database of patents. Very nice database.

Author: metaspencer
Added: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:00:31 -0800
Duration: 68

Video writing journal entry about filling in citations and buying china.

Author: metaspencer
Added: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 14:58:20 -0800
Duration: 116

A video writing journal entry on having such a cool writing group.

Author: metaspencer
Added: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:20:34 -0800
Duration: 73

The final video writing journal entry of 2007, mainly concerned with wrapping up too too too too many writing projects.

Author: metaspencer
Added: Sat, 01 Dec 2007 16:13:06 -0800
Duration: 33

Okay, I know it's like so writing-process-as-segmented-labor to spend four hours on an outline, but that's what I did on this Saturday. And it's not even done. Why finish it? Oh, I don't know: outlining makes me feel ready to write or something.

Author: metaspencer
Added: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:58:06 -0800
Duration: 78

End of semester writing segment.

Author: metaspencer
Added: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 10:43:06 -0800
Duration: 54

Scroungy video writing journal entry on a revision job.

Author: metaspencer
Added: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:58:06 -0800
Duration: 62

Video Writing Journal entry on having to shift (quickly!) to a revision. Doncha hate that?

Author: metaspencer
Added: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 09:55:12 -0800
Duration: 50

Video writing journal entry on random writing, mainly blog related.

Author: metaspencer
Added: Sat, 03 Nov 2007 12:43:05 -0800
Duration: 60

A short post from a café in Portland, ME looking ahead to my next writing project.

Author: metaspencer
Added: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 21:43:05 -0800
Duration: 260

A short version of my conference paper for SLSA next week in Portland, ME

Author: metaspencer
Added: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:25:14 -0800
Duration: 45

A short spiel on the conference paper I'm working on and thinking about posting (in some form) to this space.

Author: metaspencer
Added: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 18:25:11 -0800
Duration: 28

A quick little entry in the Video Writing Journal (get it! yow!) about writing a conference paper, or most of one, in a day. Yow!

Author: metaspencer
Added: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:55:10 -0800
Duration: 49

Today was a research day, as I get going on the next little writing project (a conference paper).

Author: metaspencer
Added: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:54:53 -0800
Duration: 63

Video writing journal entry on some re-rewriting that needs to happen. As in today!

Author: metaspencer
Added: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 17:24:37 -0800
Duration: 80

A roadsite video writing journal entry on a somewhat unconventional essay that's drafted (as of today).

Author: metaspencer
Added: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:24:36 -0800
Duration: 62

Video writing journal entry on the maxim that location is everything. Did you know that this pertains to writing as well as buying real estate?

Author: metaspencer
Added: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 11:45:35 -0800
Duration: 71

A video writing journal post on squeezing stuff in, also about how to wear a quasi-disco-related shirt while doing office hours.

Author: metaspencer
Added: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 12:00:31 -0800
Duration: 58

About trying to get into a piece of writing I started during the summer. Re-entry mode 101.

Author: metaspencer
Added: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 14:13:50 -0800
Duration: 54

Perhaps the most boring of all the posts to this journal, save one: a little spiel on not even really writing. I mean, come on: how can a "video writing journal" sustain a post that isn't even about writing???

Author: metaspencer
Added: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 10:36:18 -0800
Duration: 104

A few clips talking mainly about finalizations (of the essay I've been working on). You may also find some information in this video about hot and cold beverages.

Author: metaspencer
Added: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 20:48:14 -0800
Duration: 85

Editing late at night is probably not the best idea, but tonight it simply had to be done. Spent a couple of hours working on some edits before sending it off to get a second opinion. Oh yeah: and that is my kitchen.

Author: metaspencer
Added: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:57:10 -0800
Duration: 61

Today I rode in a hot-air balloon over the city, and from the basket I cut this little entry for my video writing journal.

Author: metaspencer
Added: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 11:51:10 -0800
Duration: 85

A totally pointless mumble about Amazon.com reviews and stuff. In which I also foreshadow the fact that I plan to post something about my Global and Universal Theory of Revision sometime soon.

Author: metaspencer
Added: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 19:58:08 -0800
Duration: 28

A very short entry in my video writing journal, maybe the shortest one yet. What do I talk about? Conclusions and being trapped inside. Don't watch this if you can help it.

Author: metaspencer
Added: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:06:01 -0800
Duration: 87

In which I address the widespread and false claim that this is a boring video writing journal.

Author: metaspencer
Added: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:25:07 -0800
Duration: 90

Video writing journal entry on transitioning between projects.

Author: metaspencer
Added: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:44:51 -0800
Duration: 75

Done with the short conference response-paper; thinking about recording myself reading.

Author: metaspencer
Added: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 15:14:47 -0800
Duration: 64

Still working on that review essay (amid various interruptions). If you're not at a café in downtown Champaign, you're weird -- everyone else is down here working.

Author: metaspencer
Added: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 14:35:44 -0800
Duration: 80

In which I describe rewriting amid various café sightings, including the woman with the bag of Doritos® tattooed on her back.

Author: metaspencer
Added: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:26:42 -0800
Duration: 86

Video writing journal entry about the endless deadlines and writing for the web.

Author: metaspencer
Added: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:13:06 -0800
Duration: 71

A little something at the end of the day about how great my writing group is.

Author: metaspencer
Added: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 13:26:34 -0800
Duration: 80

In the middle of a busy week with multiple deadlines, I take half of a day to put together a sequence of handwritten cardboard thingies that will become a website called "The Urban Literacy Center Manifesto." Kind of fun. Kind of silly.

Author: metaspencer
Added: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:25:10 -0800
Duration: 84

In my office reflecting on a day consumed by teaching and meetings ... but I'll be doing it up later on!

Author: metaspencer
Added: Sat, 08 Sep 2007 11:35:25 -0800
Duration: 123

Video writing journal retrospective, capturing KEY MOMENTS over the past few months. Oh yeah!

Author: metaspencer
Added: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:14:23 -0800
Duration: 95

A little silly spiel on the two essays I'm working on -- one for the web and the other for print.

Author: metaspencer
Added: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:05:18 -0800
Duration: 69

A little spiel about Barton Fink and his writer's block.

Author: metaspencer
Added: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:04:08 -0800
Duration: 82

In which I find myself by the side of the road talking about my writing. What?

Author: metaspencer
Added: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 12:56:13 -0800
Duration: 84

Moving ahead on the simulation essay ...

Author: metaspencer
Added: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 05:35:14 -0800
Duration: 88

Train ride to Chicago; working on a few paragraphs ...

Author: metaspencer
Added: Sat, 01 Sep 2007 10:14:11 -0800
Duration: 39

At Pekara working on a section on Nikki Lee.

Author: metaspencer
Added: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:43:06 -0800
Duration: 43

Idle chatter about trying to work from a messy outline.

Author: metaspencer
Added: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:55:08 -0800
Duration: 69

In which I kick off this new writing journal, quickly describing what is on the plate right now.