Wellbeing: Write about your Personal Values

Whittaker has mentioned James Clear before - he writes in a very approachable way about behavioural psychology and habit-forming.

This week, he blogged about the psychological benefits of writing about your personal values, in a journal or elsewhere.  Read it here.

Have you got a BHAG Journal?

Karen bought herself a copy of Jurgen Wolff's Creativity Now at lunchtime.  Looking for inspiration for this very Whittaker Live blog, she thought she'd take a look at Wolff's own website.

And what did we find?  The 'BHAG Journal'.  It stands for Big Hairy Audacious Goal Journal, apparently.  So ... have you got one?

Now, we haven't got Wolff's book in the Whittaker Library (yet); however, we have a lot of books about creativity.  Take a look HERE.  You might be inspired to find some new BHAGs of your own!

• http://jurgenwolff.com/
• http://timetowrite.blogs.com/creativitynow/  (Wolff's Creativity Now website)

Pat Thomson suggests reasons why journals reject papers

Anyone in the business of writing and submitting articles will read Pat Thomson's latest blogpost with considerable interest:-

Seven Reasons why Journals Reject Papers

Pat's writing always comes highly recommended!

Organised Sound special issue: Call for Papers

From an emailed circular ...

Organised Sound is an international peer-reviewed journal which focuses on the issues arising from the use of technology in music and the impact it is having on a variety of musical genres, from multimedia, performance art and sound sculpture to experimental electroacoustic composition and its influence on popular idioms.

Cambridge Journals is pleased to announce that Vol.18 no.3 of Organised Sound, due to be published in December 2013, will be a special issue entitled 'Re-wiring Electronic Music.'

Submissions should be sent to os@dmu.ac.uk by 1st February 2013.

Circulate this call for papers with your colleagues -

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Jobs.ac.uk tells you about contributing to an academic journal

New blogpost from the helpful folk at jobs.ac.uk:-

Academic writing: contributing to a journal

Getting into Character

Queen Victoria's diaries

Are you an actor getting into character for a play set in the Victorian age?

Queen Victoria's personal journals are now available digitally.  BBC news item here.  (A nice, Royal story appropriate for the Jubilee!)

'We kissed each'
The intimate side of the queen is revealed through an entry after her marriage to Prince Albert in February 1840.  She wrote of her new husband: "He clasped me in his arms, and we kissed each other again and again!
"Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am."

Writing for publication

There's a new post on Patter (Pat Thomson's blog) which might interest anyone with the urge to go into print ...

Writing for publication – it’s just a matter of meeting the conventions of a journal, right?

by pat thomson