I came to my desk at 6ish and have been working pretty well, considering.
I am pretty sulky because my head wants to party after all the hard work I put into my lit review. Is like having exams back-to-back and Just Not Fair. It is also hard to come back to writing after editing. It is a totally different form of work and you really have to keep urging yourself to editing and just write! I will edit for ages even though the work I have done on this chapter is minimal and only rough. Silly waste of time. I have also been struggling not to be sidetracked, so doing my ten min rule religiously then letting myself wander all over the internet for as long as I need until I remember why I am here :) Is only about 20 mins away tops which is ok for just starting back. The gap will shorten as I get some typing rhythm going.
But for today I managed to complete a decent introduction (it was already pretty good which was a godsend) and then make the intro the structure of the chapter with headings and subheadings. Now all I have to do is the colouring in :) I am pleased for now because sorting out this structure normally takes me a really long time, but because it is there I can literally start typing.
To help me work, as of now, I am going to:
I cannot tell you how much it hurts me to think I have to come back to work tomorrow. Even though I have finished a chapter and realised I don't have to do another one, I STILL can't have a day off :( Being motivated to come back day after day is so tricky, and I tell you I am chuffed if I have done 30 mins work in two hours. All the momentum and motivation I had with the last chapter fizzled out when it finished. Fizzled.
Momentum and motivation are hard won. You will NOT be motivated 'just like that'. In fact I hardly believe in motivation. It is so brief and unreliable! Better thinking there is no motivation, just determination :)
Oh yeah!
x J
I am pretty sulky because my head wants to party after all the hard work I put into my lit review. Is like having exams back-to-back and Just Not Fair. It is also hard to come back to writing after editing. It is a totally different form of work and you really have to keep urging yourself to editing and just write! I will edit for ages even though the work I have done on this chapter is minimal and only rough. Silly waste of time. I have also been struggling not to be sidetracked, so doing my ten min rule religiously then letting myself wander all over the internet for as long as I need until I remember why I am here :) Is only about 20 mins away tops which is ok for just starting back. The gap will shorten as I get some typing rhythm going.
But for today I managed to complete a decent introduction (it was already pretty good which was a godsend) and then make the intro the structure of the chapter with headings and subheadings. Now all I have to do is the colouring in :) I am pleased for now because sorting out this structure normally takes me a really long time, but because it is there I can literally start typing.
To help me work, as of now, I am going to:
- Take my mound of notes (nearly a foot high?!) and if I see an 'important' piece of paper type it into my chapter under a heading. Chuck anything waffly/repeated.
- Not worry about style or flow, just freewrite stuff.
- Remember that this chapter is really descriptive and doesn't really need much individual thinking or analysis. It is a 'backbone' chapter, providing the support to the ideas chapters and analyses that branch off it. SO DON'T OVER ANALYSE/COMPLICATE THINGS.
- Just think of this as a getting words down on paper mission. As many words as possible. make sense of them later. Let's get the bulk down and then edit, edit, edit :)
I cannot tell you how much it hurts me to think I have to come back to work tomorrow. Even though I have finished a chapter and realised I don't have to do another one, I STILL can't have a day off :( Being motivated to come back day after day is so tricky, and I tell you I am chuffed if I have done 30 mins work in two hours. All the momentum and motivation I had with the last chapter fizzled out when it finished. Fizzled.
Momentum and motivation are hard won. You will NOT be motivated 'just like that'. In fact I hardly believe in motivation. It is so brief and unreliable! Better thinking there is no motivation, just determination :)
Oh yeah!
x J
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