It has been ages since I last posted. We had a visitor from Far Off Land staying with us last week, which kept us pretty busy. Then this weekend I put off posting because I felt bad about my InaDWriMo progress. I thought I'd write on Saturday, so I decided to wait until Saturday night to post. Then I didn't even open my document on Saturday, so I promised myself I'd work on it on Sunday. You can guess how that went. No writing progress. No posting.
I think this is the exact behavior that frequently inhibits many of us. And I suspect it's the reason a certain person has still not read my paper.
Anyway, the week before last I sent a strongly worded email to my advisors to urge them to comment on my paper (not my InaDWriMo project, but the paper I've been working on all year). So last week Academic Advisor found some time for it. We spent Wednesday afternoon sending pieces of the draft back and forth, picking away at his last criticisms. I continued with those on Thursday and then sent a corrected version with comments in the margins on Thursday night. Friday we met again to discuss these last concerns. Now I have just a few last tweaks before I send it around again. Academic Advisor thinks it's ready to submit, pending one final read-through after a few days. Now it's up to Research Advisor to put it her two cents. Or suggest a dramatic overhaul that will take at least 3 weeks.
I worked on my InaDWriMo project a little bit too. I felt like I wasn't getting anywhere until today, actually. I had bits and pieces of disjointed thoughts scattered through a rough, bullet-point outline. Today I fleshed it out a little and joined the pieces together so that it now sort of resembles a draft. A very rough draft, but a draft nonetheless. Now comes the process of working through the literature I've compiled to find all the best references. There will be lots of revision to the text as that happens.
We're having friends over tomorrow, then going to my home town for Thanksgiving, then on Sunday EGM leaves for a 6-week field trip. Time is flying! I hope the time he's away goes just as fast.
3 comments:
I think Novemeber must be a difficult month in which to set a particular writing goal, what with all the impending holidays. You are making progress, though, and the work on the other paper sounds quite encouraging.
Have a happy Thanksgiving! :)
Yay for the draft! I'm still amazed at how opposite our writing processes are. I wouldn't even know where to start if I didn't do the reading first.
Way to go on the draft and also on getting your comments back from your advisors!
Have a great holiday and time with EGM before his trip!
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