Hello friends 🤗
Had my head down this week working on the chapter two re-write. Another week and a half before I head home for Easter, so I have that as a deadline for myself to get it (and my Hidden Worlds chapter) done. Grind time!
📆 Activities 🛼
Monday 11 March. Getting into Charities career talk
Tuesday 12 March.
AM. Teaching for Madness
PM. Student meeting; EDI meeting
Wednesday 13 March. Vampires 💉🧑🏽⚕️
Thursday 14 March. Chapter 2; Therapy; Student meeting
Friday 15 March. Collaborative Online Doctoral Writing Retreat
Sunday 17 March. Finished reading for book review
📝 The Chapter Two Re-Write 🚧
As planned, I have spent every day this week working on the re-write for chapter two. It was super helpful to have had that week for thinking and (re)reading and I have a much better grasp for the chapter now. It has taken a lot of re-arranging, deleting, bringing things in from my Masters dissertation and quite a bit of new writing too. Given all of the changes, it is on the way to becoming a totally different chapter than the one I gave Neil and Duncan to read two weeks ago!
During Friday’s writing retreat, I wanted to get the entire re-write finished. Unfortunately, that included a significant rewrite of the hardest section. So, despite powering through the whole day and making progress, I didn’t finish. But I am being kind to myself, since I am working through some really knotty content which will inevitably take time.
With a few more days at the start of the week after next, it should be in good shape. Then, I can do a total re-write of the chapter introduction and conclusion to really solidify what the chapter is about. This will take some extra tweaking to ensure consistency but I am feeling much better about the chapter already.
🧩 Entertainment 📺
📘 Finished reading Tell Me How It Ends, intreaguing concept of the commercialisation of oral history. Really enjoyed it! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
📖 Started Reading Becky by Sarah May
🧩 Started the second gingerbread wasjig jigsaw!
📺 Still watching The Apprentice, Ambulance, Gossip Girl, and Desperate Housewives
📺 Finished Watching Love Is Blind
🎧 Started listening to The Rest Is Entertainment which has quickly become one of my favourite podcasts
🎮 Started playing Hotel Transylvania on my switch - getting used to the controls which are quite different to Pokemon! Ended up glitching when I played it last, which I hope goes away with a simple reset
🧽 Cleaned my balcony glass doors
🎨 Drawing pokemon!
Wow to both the chapter picture and cleaning patio windows. Oh dear to breaking Hotel Transylvania x
Congratulations on your hard work on your chapter, I am glad you sound really happy with the progress and the restructure.