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Bah. The paper I've been trying to draft for the last two weeks is kaput. I finally realized that the trouble I'm having in drafting it isn't a result of me being lazy and slow this August (though that is a factor) but a result of the paper having essentially no direction or structure other than "What I Learned From This One Thing Here."
Yeah, that's not a good plan. It's a topic, not an argument, and if I'm going to try sending this to the bigleague journals, I gotta have a better direction.
So I'm going to back up, re-outline, re-think, and essentially try and make something slimmer and more directed, even if it means leaving out some cool stuff or using fewer quotes from my interviewees. This way, I can make it into my backup presentation for October as well as a better paper all around.
But it never feels good to walk away from a project unfinished, even if you know it's going to be better once revised and fixed and built again. 4500 words down the drain...
Yeah, that's not a good plan. It's a topic, not an argument, and if I'm going to try sending this to the bigleague journals, I gotta have a better direction.
So I'm going to back up, re-outline, re-think, and essentially try and make something slimmer and more directed, even if it means leaving out some cool stuff or using fewer quotes from my interviewees. This way, I can make it into my backup presentation for October as well as a better paper all around.
But it never feels good to walk away from a project unfinished, even if you know it's going to be better once revised and fixed and built again. 4500 words down the drain...
