% Stopping (with restarting in mind)
% Norman Ramsey\
    The Engineering Method of Technical Writing
% February 2017

Here are some discussion questions inspired by Chapter 5 of Boice, on
timely *stopping*.  I will have you address these questions in pairs.
(I will choose the pairs.)

### Preliminary questions

 1. In your research group, what is the prevailing practice or
    mythology about when you start writing and stop writing, and about
    when and how often you write?

 1. Boice mentions patience and tolerance.  What do they have to do
    with writing practice?  Have their opposites, impatience and
    intolerance, affected your writing practice?  How?

    Your research group is a small society.  In what ways is it
    patient and tolerant?  In what ways is it impatient and
    intolerant? 

 1. In order to *start* a writing session, you have to *stop* whatever
    comes just before the writing session. Hard?  Or easy?

 1. In your own experience, how true is it that stopping is even more
    difficult than starting?  Under what circumstances?

 1. Please review the seven exercises in Boice on pages 146 to 148.

      - Which ones seem like things you are already doing or could
        easily incorporate into your practice right now?

      - Which ones seem like things you are ready to start working on?

      - Which ones seem like they are not so relevant to you right now?

### Main questions

 6. Boice has a lot of views about how a writing session should go and
    what things should happen.  What is the structure of a writing
    session "according to Boice?"  In particular, how would you
    narrate the sequence of events that occurs *before*, *during*, and
    *after* a writing session?

      
 1. To improve your own personal practice---especially if a matter of
    writing practice is one of your current challenges---what is your
    next step?