OK, my dear lost readers. I’m back. Because I just found out about the International Dissertation Writing Month, and I think it’s just a fabulous idea (and yes, the first one was last year, but guess what! It’s happening again!)
I actually have no idea what word goal is realistic, so let’s say 15,000 in the form of a chapter. OK? Ok. That will be about 40% longer than my first, rather short chapter, and I’m going to count the changes in cumulative numbers, so if I edit something out, it’s gone.
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November 1, 2007 at 6:03 pm
I just checked the thing I wrote about Tierradentro in February – it’s a little under 15,000 words. I guess you have some (much?) of the research done already, which I didn’t. But 15,000 words is more than I realized. It took me about five weeks to write that….but then again, I guess that’s the point. Still, the exercise nearly killed me. And I wasn’t teaching.
My DC research trip frees me from feeling any need to join the madness, yay
November 1, 2007 at 6:12 pm
Then again, I’ve written 3,000 words this week without really trying.