April 29, 2021
麻豆传媒 Assistant Professor, scholar, and book writer James Plumtree shares his features from the writing process, feelings, and challenges he faces while publishing book. Please read an interview below:
One feature of my writing process that I would like to share is the social aspect. Many of my publications originate in a conversation - a probing question, an enigmatic puzzle - or in a chance connection. The clarity, and quality, of the writing and revision of the work is also greatly shaped by the input of others. Though the name at the top of the work might give the impression of a solitary person working alone, there is a community of scholars, archivists, librarians, researchers, translators, past and present, living in the footnotes and acknowledgments.
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The concentration and focus can sometimes be Zen-like.
My foremost reviewers are my parents and a friend who is an analytical philosopher; they provide honest and helpful feedback. I have also been fortunate to receive constructive comments and questions from sharp students and supportive editors.
鈥淕o, litel boke, go, litel myn tragedye鈥�: the amount of hidden and often unacknowledged labour involved is staggering. The time from submission to print can burden your patience 鈥� one study of mine took eight years to finally be published 鈥� particularly since so much substantial work often never reaches publication. My forthcoming book on Manas, I hope, will avoid this fate.
Voracious. The current book I am repeatedly recommending is Qian Zhongshu鈥檚 Fortress Besieged.
Qian Zhongshu鈥檚 Fortress Besieged; it really is that good.
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