InaDWriMo update

I have actually made some progress this week! Being accountable to InaDWriMo has helped me get over it and start chipping away at this writing project that seems a little daunting. I spent most of the week working up data. I gave a presentation on this study at a meeting in August, but at that time I had processed the data very quickly and knew there were some things I needed to work out. It's interesting how time can change things, though, because a few issues that I thought were real dilemmas in August strike me as obvious decisions now. I have now decided to handle the data analysis one way, however, I think that could change later when I discuss it with my advisors.

Anyway, by deciding to just deal with the data instead of reworking it over and over, I was able to make some progress. Most of the figures are made. I still need to decide about some tables, but I think what I need will become clear as I finalize the results section. So far I have written out sentences systematically describing most of the results. I need to complete that section and edit it into something readable.

My word meter is at 30% which I think is a little misleading. I've been jotting down paragraphs here and there to record ideas and that's starting to turn into an outline. I think most of that text will be entirely rewritten though.

My goals for next week are to finish the results section including the figures and tables, come up with an outline, and draft a few key paragraphs that I'm positive I will need. I have already gathered the literature I need for each of these paragraphs so it shouldn't be all that hard to write them.

In other writing news, I had to lay down the law in an email to my advisors, one of whom has still not read the paper I've been talking about here all year. The other one promised comments on my latest draft by Monday and scheduled a meeting for Tuesday to discuss it. Great! Now if I could just get the other to do the same, I'd be in business.