Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrg!

Writing up the fieldwork is not easy at *all*!!

I am having a nightmare!

Because the information is so higgeldy piggeldy, a simple sentence can have three different bits of info in it that I need, and would ideally like to structure in three different parts of the chapter, but they have to be all in one. Or the information is contradictory, so I can't say anything with any strong conviction, every comment is a bit of this, a bit of that... it is really hard! I have only just realised that rather than me being totally *quite a bitm but not totally) slack every day for hmmmm... about three weeks, it is largely that the chapter is so hard to write! If I could write it, I would. I have only just realised this. Every day I sit and jiggle about my introduction, then think a-ha! I have it. Then I go to re-jog my chapter accordingly and realise it won't work. It isn't going to be neat. So how to go about sorting this out?! It needs structure, and I won't go through the questions and answer them one by one - how dry and convoluted. Nor will I go to each village and write out what they said one by one. No, it needs to be a synopsis of the research, to tell their stories but in a way relevant to the research question and also include analysis.

How to do this? Don't ask me!

Bah, I didn't expect this. Am now going to go back to er, staring at it and thinking. I think it may have even got to the stage where I need to start thinking aloud. Yes, jibbering to myself.

x J