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This time I have a valid excuse for why I haven't made a real post in ages. I met my supervisor Monday, to discuss the 4,500 words I'd managed to rip out of myself (insert metaphors involving blood, sweat, and tears, or those involving tooth-pulling; they're appropriate.) I was seriously beginning to wonder how on earth I'd fill up 30k words by June.
As is becoming habit with these meetings, my supervisor told me "you need to expand this! You toss off these insightful statements, then don't back them up! Grr! Argh!" And suddenly, about Wednesday, verbosity struck.
I have been expanding what will be the main body of my thesis, which is the listing of each thing Matthew talks about, and everything I can find to corroborate or contradict it. I am approximately halfway through that section, and the section stands at about 10,000 words. It could well be at 20,000 by the time I'm done. And that is without even drawing any conclusions, or doing any data analysis on which things Matthew gets right, how he gets which things wrong, whether there are threads, and what his info might have come from. I'm leaving that for a separate section. And then there are the thousand or two I'll have to devote to the historical background, and the manuscript tradition, and a brief description of the other sources we have.
I am actually going to go over the limit on this draft. That is amazing to me. Also amazing is that I've written about 8,000 words in the last 4 days. Er, go me?
As is becoming habit with these meetings, my supervisor told me "you need to expand this! You toss off these insightful statements, then don't back them up! Grr! Argh!" And suddenly, about Wednesday, verbosity struck.
I have been expanding what will be the main body of my thesis, which is the listing of each thing Matthew talks about, and everything I can find to corroborate or contradict it. I am approximately halfway through that section, and the section stands at about 10,000 words. It could well be at 20,000 by the time I'm done. And that is without even drawing any conclusions, or doing any data analysis on which things Matthew gets right, how he gets which things wrong, whether there are threads, and what his info might have come from. I'm leaving that for a separate section. And then there are the thousand or two I'll have to devote to the historical background, and the manuscript tradition, and a brief description of the other sources we have.
I am actually going to go over the limit on this draft. That is amazing to me. Also amazing is that I've written about 8,000 words in the last 4 days. Er, go me?
