The words, they are a-flowin’…
Ahhhh…I seem to have figured out the problem that was tripping up my dissertating. While I’m not entirely positive it hang together perfectly, I’ve got a good enough sense of how to restructure things that I’m able to start writing with a clear destination in mind. At this rate, I’ll have another chapter cranked out by next weekend…
It’s funny – if I get too far away from my material and spend too much time thinking about how to piece things together, the best thing to do is simply to dive back into my interviews and archival material, and ideas start jumping out at me (“Oh, right…that’s what I wanted to say!”). It’s a good feeling, which not only gets the writing juices flowing but also reminds me that I did an extensively good job back when I was researching this stuff in the first place…