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[truepenny]

More tidying. Paragraphs of connective tissue, seeding the later chapters with terms and ideas from the introduction.

I have no sense of this thing as a whole. I no longer even have much sense of the introduction as a whole. Never mind the forest; I think I'm in a state where I can't see the trees for the bark.

It's okay. This is exactly why I imposed on the charming and talented heres_luck to read the whole damn thing. She can point out the trees to me again.

I think I'm going to have to make a very long list of very small and specific tasks for the editing and revising which must take place between now and October sixth (*shriek*). Because I can manage one small task at a time; it's just that those small tasks are refusing to aggregate into a larger sense of purpose or direction.

Comments

[rivka.livejournal.com]

I heartily support the idea of a long list of tiny tasks - it's what I did, for sure, and it helped. Because the whole thing together is, quite frankly, terrifying. There's so much of it.

You can do this. If I can do it, you can do it.

[malinaldarose.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad that when it came time to finish my master's, I chose to do a creative project. So much easier (even though I had to write a 50 page paper discussing the "creative process" to go with it).

[oursin.livejournal.com]

As ?Voltaire remarked of the saint who was supposed to have walked several miles clutching her decapitated head, 'C'est le premier pas qui coute'.