Books ain't so hard

[jawnbc]

1.5 work days later and solid draft of chapter 2 is in the can. Today I'm not thinking Foucault, Joyce, or Alice Walker are particularly all that. I mean, I'll have written a whole scholarly, world-changing tome in less than 3 weeks at this rate?

OK, not really. And it's funny how we don't allow for thinking to be considered working, even for those of us whose roles are intellectually defined.

Both chapters are printed up and I'm heading home (after a 2 day cameo appearance at my office *gasp*) to edit the hard copies after grabbing some lunch.

Regardless, I miss my husband. Bed's too big with you...

Comments

[jawnbc]

Nah you won't. I went into my MA after working for 10 years and having to write reports in a month--50-100 pagers. Or having to develop a detailed, to-the-minute curriculum in 2 weeks. Once you learn that you can produce, it merely becomes a matter of process and quality.

My process now is:

1. read. alot
2. think a lot more
3. think more
4. outline intuitively
5. think more
6. write a whole new outline
7. consolidate 2 outlines into an annotated one (usually overlap 80% or s0)
8. Write in dumps, based on the outline for each chapter EXCEPT the conclusions
9. Go away
10. Edit the entire thing, moving stuff around and restructuring as seems best
11. Reprint, edit, leave for a couple of days
12. see #11
13. submit

[holden-wake.livejournal.com]

Thats mostly what I did, but really slow! Thats a good step by step plan though, thanks! :)