Gaan luister gerus na 22 Januarie se RSG Skrywers en boeke potgooi:
"Ilse Salzwedel bring hulde aan Hennie Aucamp wat vandeesweek sy tagtigste verjaarsdag vier. Sy gesels met prof. Andries Visagie (UP), prof. Louise Viljoen (US) en prof. Helize van Vuuren (NMM) oor sy werk. Daar is ook argiefopnames van ʼn veel jonger Aucamp wat een van sy gedigte voorlees en ʼn voorlesing van ʼn Bruidsbed vir Tant Nonnie, een van Aucamp se bekendste verhale. Amanda Strydom sing Fanie en Bettie, een van die liedjies uit Aucamp se kabaret, 'n Vuur gevang in glas." Klik hier om te luister.
(Beskrywing van potgooi verkry vanaf die RSG-webwerf.)
Today it is exactly one week before I hand
in The Eternal Dissertation. The problem is that, now that I’m basically
putting the finishing touches on the document, the perfectionist in me starts
to haggle and tell me that I should rather rewrite a specific piece or that I
should read through the whole thing just
one more time. I’m trying my best not to listen, though.
If you read the blog often, you’ll know by
now that I like background music. At the moment it’s leaning towards classical
and early music. This piece from Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake (Op. 20, Scène) remains
one of my favourites.
Or, an
update of what I’ve been up to the past month
While I’ve been off on “vacation”, I’ve
actually been working at top speed on the Everlasting Dissertation. It now only
needs a final proofread! And I finished a few days before my leave ended, so I
had a few days off to let my mind remember that there is a world beyond the pile of books in front of me. That world includes
more books and afternoon naps…
Some
proper writing time
In the rush of the past few months I’ve only
been able to jot down some ideas and not really giving much thought to my other
writing endeavours. So, in my few days off, I indulged in some writing and am
now busy with four short stories. (These are just too long to be considered
flash fiction.)
The stories are all speculative fiction, though
for quite different markets. I don’t want to divulge too much about the
stories, but I can say that they include a Christian fantasy story, a zombie
story and one for which I need to do some extra research on archaeological
field methods.
Some Plans
for the future
I’m also going to do Nanowrimo this year with one of my friends (if all goes well!)
and I’m really looking forward to that. And there is another local competition
I want to enter. The main gist of the idea is there, but it still needs quite a
lot of world building.
Until then I’m burying my face in the Eternal
Dissertation one last time before handing it in. Wish me luck!
Vandag is my eerste dag terug op kantoor. Met hope e-posse om te lees en my eerste sperdatum wat reeds Woensdag is, het ek besef dat ek weer moet kyk na die manier waarop ek spertye en dies meer aanteken.
Ek het besluit om hierdie jaar gebruik te maak van ’n dagboek en die Bullet Journal. Aangesien ek reeds gebruik maak van ’n tipe Bullet Journal om my take vir die dag aan te teken, dink ek dat die stelsel wat Ryder Carroll gebruik heel moontlik die beste vir my sal werk. Ek het al digitale tydsbestuurtoepassings probeer, maar, hoewel ek steeds dink iets soos Wunderlist wonderlik is, soek ek iets wat nie digitaal is nie.
Vir dié wat analoog verkies – die Bullet Journal
Gaan luister gerus na hierdie potgooi van The Pen Addictwaar Ryder Carrol die gas is en oor die Bullet Journal praat. Hy verduidelik ook hoe dit gebruik en aangepas kan word by die manier waarop jy werk. (Ek dink sommige van die mense wat dit al probeer het, het die deel waar jy dit vir jou aanpas misverstaan.)
Vir my sal die inhoudsopgawe voor in die boek baie help om my notas van vergaderings, idees vir kliënte, skryfnotas en daaglikse-doen-dinge vinnig op te spoor. Aangesien ek baie streng spertye het, sal ek wel ook ’n dagboek nodig hê om dit vooruit aan te dui sodat ek al my ander werk daarom kan inpas.
Ek gaan ook nie ’n Moleskine notaboek gebruik nie. Alhoewel hulle pragtig is en baie lekker is om in te skryf, wil ek nie so ’n duur notaboek vir my daaglikse take gebruik nie.
’n Bietjie digitale hulp...
Ek het ook ’n bietjie digitale hulp nodig, veral wanneer ek skakels vir verskillende projekte bymekaar moet hou en maklik kan opspoor. Hiervoor stel ek twee toepassings voor – Wunderlist en Evernote. Beide se basiese toepassing is gratis en nie te duur indien jy wil opgradeer nie.
Hoewel ek laasjaar probeer het om Wunderlist vir alles by die werk te gebruik, het ek na ’n paar maande besef dat dit vir my beter is om die notas met die hand te skryf en saam met my rond te dra – dan onthou ek sommer ook beter.
Wat wel baie handig is, is dat jy die toepassing ook op jou foon kan gebruik. Dus kan jy al jou lyste heeltyd by jou dra en van jou rekenaar of foon opdateer. Indien jy dus jou lyste digitaal beskikbaar wil hê, sal ek hierdie toepassing aanbeveel.
Indien jy notas en skakels bymekaar wil hou – soos wat ek met projekte moet doen is Evernote bobaas. Hierdie is ’n toepassing wat ek beslis meer gaan gebruik hierdie jaar.
Today
is my first day back at work for the year. With piles of emails to read and
getting back in the thick of deadlines I realised that I need to rethink the
way in which I keep track of my tasks and deadlines.
I’ve
decided to try a mixture of a diary/planner and the Bullet Journal this year.
As I already used a form of bullet journaling (is that a real phrase) I
realised that the system Ryder Carroll uses may just work for the scatterbrain
half of me. I’ve tried to use digital task management tools and, though I still
find something like Wunderlist wonderful, I want something that is offline.
First
off, go and listen to this podcast of The Pen Addict where Ryder Carroll is the
guest and talks about the Bullet Journal and how it can be used and adapted to
fit in with the way you work. (I think some of the people who have tried it
missed the part where you adapt the journal to suit how you work.)
For me
the index in the front will help a lot to find meeting notes between random
daily to-dos, writing notes, brainstorming for clients and the inevitable
doodling. But I also need a diary/planner because of my strict deadlines – those
I need to be able to write in ahead of time so I can plan all my other work
around them.
I’m
also not going to use a Moleskine notebook – though they are beautiful and lovely
to work in, I do not want to use such an expensive notebook for everyday notes.
And Some Digital Help as Well...
I also
need a bit of digital help, especially when it comes to keeping links handy for
different projects or simply to read later. For this I recommend two apps –
Wunderlist and Evernote. Both these apps are free for the basic app and quite inexpensive
to upgrade.
While I
used to use Wunderlist for everything at work, I found after a few months that
I’d rather make notes by hand and carry them around with me. I also remember stuff
easier when I write with actual pen and paper rather than just typing.
What is
very handy, though, is that it is
available for mobile as well. If you would rather have your lists and notes
available digitally, this is the app I would choose.
When it
comes to keeping links and notes for a project I need to have on a computer (or
which is just more practical to keep on a computer) Evernote is a definite winner
and one I’ll be making more use of this year.
