Blah blah writing group
Sep. 25th, 2011 06:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
highlyeccentricHeyhey - I went AWOL last week, due to a combination of things involving transportation confusions, time zones, and a bushfire. I tried to drop a note on Notorius' post, but it got lost since I used openID which goes under my blog title (nakedphilologist). Anyway - I ought to have been able to check in just before things closed (our Monday is your Sunday), but assorted fails got in the way.
I did do up goals for the week, though.
First thing is, as of last week, I need to downgrade my project to one chapter only; I didn't meet my first week's goals *except* for the one which said 'talk to my supervisor about deadlines', but since I did manage that, I've got extension paperwork in progress.
This week I sketched out an outline of both the thesis and the chapter, and tidied up some more notetaking.
The coming week is a non-teaching week, so I'll have two sorts of goals.
Taking a leaf out of Saltimata's book, a process goal - do some thesis work and some marking each day. I tend to zone in on one or the other, to the detriment of both. That affects my pacing, not only because the middle of the week becomes a blur of teaching, but because when health problems come up (which they do, remarkably often for me at the moment) it seems to be my own work that suffers. So I need to work on mixing the two sets of work, and pacing them both better.
Writing-wise, I will:
- mark up this one book I just realised I hadn't read and need to
- grab the 2000 words discarded from the last chapter and shape them up into the first part of the new one
- write a (probably to be deleted) introduction-to-the-new-chapter to go with them
I would like to do more than that, but, well, we'll see how we go.
I did do up goals for the week, though.
First thing is, as of last week, I need to downgrade my project to one chapter only; I didn't meet my first week's goals *except* for the one which said 'talk to my supervisor about deadlines', but since I did manage that, I've got extension paperwork in progress.
This week I sketched out an outline of both the thesis and the chapter, and tidied up some more notetaking.
The coming week is a non-teaching week, so I'll have two sorts of goals.
Taking a leaf out of Saltimata's book, a process goal - do some thesis work and some marking each day. I tend to zone in on one or the other, to the detriment of both. That affects my pacing, not only because the middle of the week becomes a blur of teaching, but because when health problems come up (which they do, remarkably often for me at the moment) it seems to be my own work that suffers. So I need to work on mixing the two sets of work, and pacing them both better.
Writing-wise, I will:
- mark up this one book I just realised I hadn't read and need to
- grab the 2000 words discarded from the last chapter and shape them up into the first part of the new one
- write a (probably to be deleted) introduction-to-the-new-chapter to go with them
I would like to do more than that, but, well, we'll see how we go.