Well, today’s writing exercises went well. I am still surprised at how well the talking out loud goes.
Right now I’m working on Chapter 4 of my thesis. I’ve got drafts of 1 and 2 being looked at by my advisor (I came home from Ghana with them… they are incomplete, about 40 pages in all). Chapter 3 will require a bunch of library research that I put off until I got home, and am now putting off again because my advisor and I agree that getting to work on the notes and interviews as soon as possible is important.
So, that takes me to Chapter 4. It’s about funerals and inheritance, some of the main meat of my research, so to speak. So today, I started talking to myself about what I didn’t like about how it’s shaping up so far, and then I came up with a better structure that I’m going to work with for now.
This led to going through, finding, and flagging all my written notes about funerals. Tomorrow I shall continue with the work on the electronic notes and the interview transcriptions. I’ll also start reading and ruminating on them.
So, tomorrow’s goals are:
Writing:
- mindful waiting
- 15 minute freewrite on a Chapter 4 section
Non-writing
- 3 40/20 session, finding and reading notes on funerals
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Sounds like you are powering through this! You could turn this into a famous blog or book – “How to Write a Dissertation in 4 Months.” It will be a bestseller, moreso than any ethnography ever could be!
Ya, well. So. Thursday night got a little too late and Friday was not a very good day. So, I decided to switch up my Friday and Saturday. So goals for the 31st are now actually goals for the 1st. And I’m getting started nowish :)