http://booksbywomen.org/the-phd-i-didnt-do-and-the-digital-apprenticeship-i-did/ Mon, 18 Apr 2016 20:49:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 http://booksbywomen.org/the-phd-i-didnt-do-and-the-digital-apprenticeship-i-did/#comment-47479 Mon, 18 Apr 2016 20:49:41 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=14592#comment-47479 Hi Sue Woolfe, I have the GREATEST of respect for your writing and thank you for your response. The issue we all face as authors ,with other responsibilities, is time and energy management. And it’s so hard to get the balance, especially when seduced by exploration of ideas. My dilemma was that the (digital) process of sharing those ideas was becoming a subject in itself. For me, the decision to write books with wider public appeal, rather than the narrower research focus of a PHD with a smaller but influential readership, was the right one. If I’d done a PHD now I couldn’t have written socially relevant books like ‘Hijabi Girl’ or ‘f2m:the boy within’. No time. But priorities are different for other creators. My memoir ‘Not Just a Piece of Cake;Being an Author’ was a candid attempt to indicate the diversity necessary to survive financially and intellectually as a self employed writer, which initlally seemed an all-over-the-place weakness . I’ve now acknowledged it is reality. But the structure and style of the memoir based on ‘anecdultery’ not chronology was in itself experimental ideas. Hazel

]]> http://booksbywomen.org/the-phd-i-didnt-do-and-the-digital-apprenticeship-i-did/#comment-47476 Sun, 17 Apr 2016 23:28:14 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=14592#comment-47476 Dear Hazel, I am SO sympathetic to this. In my blog on my personal website (above) you’ll find a fellow traveller, and sympathiser. I wouldn’t have done it, but for the missionI took on.

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