11/11/2010 by admin.
A reasonable amount accomplished today. I now have about 4500 words for the method – at least until my sup sees it! It seems to be quite tightly written though, so having to rewrite any of this part will be be quite difficult. I feel as though I have managed to get quite a lot of the Ph. in as well as the D, so I am feeling good about it.
Part of my analysis uses Critical Incident Technique and it is this section that I really need to brush up on. But hey, a clear idea of what I need to finish off, so no regrets there. Just about 20k words at the moment and I am hoping that the lit review will just about write itself, which will then knock it past the 30k stage.
Part of the difficulty with a part-time course, if you have never experienced it, is in ensuring you keep a balance between different parts of your life. I have never been particularly good at this, making sure I have amazingly detailed plans and then just forget to follow them. With my writing, I have stages like this, where I feel as though I am making real progress and then I will come across a half-term and get nothing done at all because the kids are off. Or the car needs an MOT. Or the cat needs feeding. A hundred and one things stop me from writing, but really it just needs single-mindedness. Or is it bloody-mindedness?
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