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October 15, 2006
oh, my bloglines will be full of bold
I would commit to this (a challenge to blog once every day in November), fussy's take on nanowrimo (the challenge to write a novel, I think, during the month of November).
I may or may not be able to actually blog something substantial every day here at academom, however, I am going to take the challenge up over at zerodraft. And I won't be publishing over there *every* day, but at least 5 times a week.
So there, I've taken what could have been a time-consuming, quite distracting charge and turned it into a mandate to GDD (get diss done). Actually, I shouldn't even say GDD, it should be GWDOD (get work done on diss). Because DONE, my friends, is a LOOOONG way off.
long. way. off. *sigh*
Posted by mryonker at October 15, 2006 09:28 PM
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"GDD" in reference to the diss stands for something else entirely in my mind ;)
Posted by: runningburro at October 15, 2006 10:30 PM
DWGD-Dissertation will get done
After a year of reading and refocusing and writing that darn proposal,
To get myself started with text, I decided I'd write 100 pages this summer-- two "chapter" drafts. One to five page sections recapitualing stuff I'd learned or thought would be important, people, subjects, etc. I wrote and promised myself I wouldn't look back. then I cut and pasted, then I sorted into folders. Then I picked one place to begin and began the same way, section by section, in any order, to suit the ostensible argument that centered one of the "chapters." And so I am slogging along-- fingers crossed for one chapter committe readable draft by Halloween (AHHHHHHH! that's the sound of my committe members opening the attachment).
So it sounds to me like you've got a good strategy-- you've got a subject, you collect text, and for a while, don't look back and trust the brain to recognize the patterns as they emerge.
And run a lot. And eat candy.
Posted by: robert at October 16, 2006 08:11 AM