As I finished up my daily NaNoWriMo writings for the day, I realized something: I need to set more time aside for these writing sessions. These past seven days of writing have been mostly brain dumps on a topic, with some revising of existing work. I think I’m ready to do more than that now.
I’ve been finding more and more that I’ve been thinking about broader concepts that I need to look at my notes to make sure I’m remembering things right and to cite them. I’m spending time now getting notes typed up and organized so I can look through them easier. I think I’m going to start going back over the work I’ve done this past week and adding citations and such as needed in addition to new content. It’s just as important as creating new content, and will help ensure that new content will work with what I’ve already written.
I’m starting to feel like I have a more cohesive argument for my article already. It helps that I’ve looked at similar articles and realized I don’t need to throw in the kitchen sink about divas to make my point. I do need to show that I’ve done my research and I know what I’m talking about, but the article really needs to be at least balanced about diva in general and Adam specifically, if not more about Adam than divas.
Most of the work this past week has brain dumping about Adam. This week can focus on going through my notes and getting those bits about divas to support my argument worked in. Then I can go back to talking about Adam and fleshing things out.
I’m about 1/4 of the way through word-count-wise. Considering most of that is from this week, I’m really happy right now. I think that’s part of why I would falter in the past: I’d get to the end of the brain dump phase and lose motivation. I’m not doing that this year. I’m getting these 20,000 words written this month!
Deviate from the Norm 