Writing Rebooted Aims

You may have already seen that LAHRI's Writing Rebooted returns this coming Friday - 22nd September at 10am. Writing Rebooted - get your pens/keyboards ready... | Leeds Arts and Humanities Research Institute

Thinking ahead to this welcome return, LAHRI Manager, Hilary Potter, reflects on why she is happy to be hosting the sessions as well as what she aims to get out of them.

What's so good about Writing Rebooted? 

Writing Rebooted provides the time, space and community support to help you to get on with your writing. It is really easy to fall out of the habit, to let other jobs take over, meaning the thought of writing can also become just stressful. It can also be really challenging to get back into writing when you've had a period away. Also I think there is something just wonderful about spending time immersing yourself in a world of ideas. Writing Rebooted offers the chance to do just that.

What are your aims for the sessions? 

Personally, aside from facilitating others, I aim to finish my half-written book - a how to guide on turning your PhD thesis into a monograph, as well as writing up a long overdue article. I'm in need of that easing back in after a period away. I'm in the middle of a house move, which is wreaking havoc on my writing time, so the return of Writing Rebooted makes me really happy.

When are the sessions and why have you changed the times? 

For this semester they are every Friday online from 10-1pm. We previously alternated between morning and afternoon sessions but we want to test out how having a fixed slot works.

How do we join?

The sessions are run on Zoom and you can access the session via the  LAHRI Hub SharePoint page or our LAHRI What's On page. If for any reason you cannot access the link then email the LAHRI inbox LAHRI@leeds.ac.uk