Studying and celebrating the different.
My dissertation chair has the first complete draft of my dissertation. Most of it has been revised according to his feedback, so I'm feeling good about it. I think we're both hoping that whole thing will be done this semester. That means I can start working on other things. Like going back to my master's… Continue reading Onward and backward?
Late last year I was finally able to be diagnosed with ADHD. Which also meant being able to start taking medication for it. Yay! Seriously, I've known that I've needed outside chemical assistance for my brain. And this medication is helping. It's also helping me see where I still need to work on things. One… Continue reading Working *with* my ADHD
I posted last night about having writers and editors block about a couple of things, including the dissertation. For the side Idol project, I decided to pull out my blank article outline in Word and start thinking about it from that perspective. It worked. An empty outline that needed defining allowed me to really think… Continue reading “Twang!”
I have been having some trouble writing lately. I've finally gotten to this point where I realized what my work is all about, across the seemingly different projects. But when I sit down to actually work on something, like my dissertation, I just draw a blank. Part of it was worrying about repeating myself. That… Continue reading Writing Blocks
It's the end of week 2 of #NaNoWriMo and I'm more than halfway to my goal for the month! Like I said earlier this week, I'm trying to do more than just a brain dump when I do my daily writing. But I realized today I was worrying too much about how what I'm writing will all tie together.
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.… Continue reading More than a brain dump
I have been terrified of overthinking things while in school. It's part of why I would put off working on a paper until almost the last minute. Part of it was I never felt ready to write about the topic and would do research until I had to start working on the paper. I know… Continue reading “Overthinking”
Deviate from the Norm 