Tuesday, November 18, 2008
November 18
I worked on my article for 3 hours today. Didn't write one word but I know I killed a tree in printing lit review material. The lit review is done but I can't seem to leave it alone and once I get searching in the databases, I am trapped! I am banning myself from entering the library databases until the article is done. The good thing is that I have decided on the journal and can now move on with the formatting.
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Hi Patricia! it's good to hear about your work. ;0) Hip hip hooray for your efforts!
To me, writing is incubation periods and then putting words on paper and then incubation and so forth--sounds like you may be doing some of that incubating by searching.
When I'm stuck hunting it is because my unconscious is saying "clarify your goals for this project". If I go back to dissecting the issues (thinking on paper) I find I have 2 or 3 articles in mind instead of just one. So I save the other ideas in a different folder and scalp off the extra articles. But that is just me. I think it is great that you have your journal (a big step for me to commit)!
Great work, Patricia! I also think it's a big help to get a specific journal in mind. Then I know the general format and style to go for. In comparison I find it harder writing a chapter for an edited collection because even though my proposal was accepted, I don't have any tangible examples of the kind of finished articles these editors really expect.
It is hard to let go of searching and get past that feeling that there might be crucial articles you somehow missed.
Have you started taking notes on any of the articles yet? I try to write something about the gap I see or way I see the piece potentially fitting in to what I think I want to say (even when I don't completely know what that is) as soon as I read through the article or I'm afraid I'll forget it. It sounds silly, but making notes on the article itself instead of in a notebook or on my computer feels more like a part of the reading/reviewing process and less like a part of the writing process and as such is easier for me to get into early on when I feel like I'm not ready for writing yet.
Hey Patricia! The lit review is always the hard part for me. It's is probably due to flashbacks from my dissertation. Once you find that niche and start printing what seems to be endless amounts of paper, it all comes together! Congrats on finding that niche!
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