{"id":6544,"date":"2023-09-22T10:50:17","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T09:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/?p=6544"},"modified":"2023-09-22T10:50:18","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T09:50:18","slug":"intangible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/?p=6544","title":{"rendered":"Intangible?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The idea of the intangibility of that mental state in estimating the time is of the greatest importance. Why is it <em>intangible<\/em>? Isn&#8217;t it because we refuse to count what is tangible about our state as part of the specific state which we are postulating?<\/p>\n<cite>Wittgenstein, PI\u00a7608<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Many of the writers I work with think of writing as a very intangible process. A good way of seeing this is when they tell me that it took them &#8220;a whole week&#8221; (or several weeks!) to write something. They don&#8217;t distinguish the tangible from the intangible parts of the process, so they count their reading and thinking and worrying about their writing as part of the time they spent &#8220;writing&#8221;. But writing, properly speaking, is what actually happens on the page. When I ask you how long it took you to write a paragraph, I&#8217;m asking you how many minutes you spent writing it. When I ask you <em>how<\/em> you did it? I don&#8217;t want to hear about all the reading and thinking and considering-how-others-did-it that you did. I want to know how you <a href=\"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/?p=5839\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"5839\">composed in the moment<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea of the intangibility of that mental state in estimating the time is of the greatest importance. Why is it intangible? Isn&#8217;t it because we refuse to count what is tangible about our state as part of the specific state which we are postulating? Wittgenstein, PI\u00a7608 Many of the writers I work with think &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/?p=6544\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Intangible?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6545,"href":"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6544\/revisions\/6545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}