When I think about writing a paper, I think of a huge library with movable stacks, and to really work on the thing you have to get down into the maze and stay there for a while. The way of thinking is almost like a different physical place, and it take an effort to get there and to stay there. It wasn't always like that for me--I think I could concentrate without such an effort--but that may just have been because I wasn't writing such complicated papers.
Oddly, I experience litereature as *social*. I don't do that well with something I've read unless I can talk about it, so writing about something I haven't discussed with anyone in a while can be especially hard.
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