I sent S a progress report and received general encouragement.
Next, he wants me to start to structure the actual dissertation - write an introduction and set out chapter headings for the rest. I've been working at that all afternoon and managed to produce a few words. But I'm struggling to achieve that lofty academic style. All my career in business was spent writing things that a senior manager might read and could not possibly misunderstand. And now they are expecting me to write in what I think is a fairly obscure, elitist way. I can do it but I'm not at all convinced of the validity. Do I have to talk about our language and Leonard's songs like that?
And then there's this blog. Barely literate, really. And full of syntactically incomplete sound-bites (see, I can do it!). It gets me into bad habits.
I can only speak for me, but I find that the blogging is incredibly useful. If I've been struggling to get started in some way, or I've got something on my mind, I find that the discipline of writing it down for someone else to read can unblock my mind.
ReplyDeleteIt's a cheap therapist, and cheap writing coach as far as I'm concerned.