Posted by alexandra_k on July 3, 2013, at 2:30:42
In reply to Re: Twenty-Five Minutes, posted by baseball55 on July 1, 2013, at 19:31:32
> When I wrote my thesis, I was teaching and my daughter was three. I taught during the day, then worked four nights a week from 4-10 on writing. My goal every night was to add 1200 words. I did word counts repeatedly to make sure I was meeting my goal. Of the six hours I worked at night, I spent probably the first three or four revising what I had written before, then started adding words.
> It got done.
Wow. I guess different people are different, hey. I'm not entirely sure how my words got here, but got here they did and now I have a big (big big) mess of them. After merging together all the seminars / papers and odd half finished bits of writing I'd done I found myself with 120,000 words. I then spent a couple months revising it down to a more manageable 80,000.
I then... After much angst... Admitted to myself that I needed to SIMPLIFY greatly. Most of it was... Woffle. It was unclear *why* I was doing what I was doing. It was unclear *why* I'd rambled on about this or that for 20,000 words.
So...
I decided on 3 papers / parts. Of 20,000 words each. So now it is about getting an abstract for each part and then getting clear on the table of contents breakdown for each part. And then figuring out how to craft each part so I do what I've promised in the abstract (provided an argument, basically). And then add the filler / padding till it is the right word length.
For me... Writing is easy. The work is (always, always) in the editing.
Tractatus I have not.
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