Heavy lifting…
After several days of wrestling with a chapter that just wouldn’t work, I realized a structural problem with my dissertation, and just spent the past hour and a half gutting and rejiggering. Once the smoke cleared, I was left with an outline that included one chapter more than I’d planned, but which also made a heck of a lot more sense, both in theoretical and narrative terms. That said, the tallies on the sidebar have been rewritten, and I feel like I have a strong sense of direction and purpose in my writing for the first time in a good three weeks.