Day 17: Barreling toward the finsh

The mission today was Chapter 6. I took the chapter from 5552 words up to 6868. But that obfuscates the rewriting I did all along the way. It was much more work than 1316 new words over 4 hours. (Although that is a fairly typical writing pace for me, now that I think about it.)

This chapter had a lot of previous writing done already. In fact, it's the only study in this arc that has actually been published. That was an abridged version, though, and so this one has a lot more sausage filling included.

But we're just trying to get everything drafted. It doesn't have to be good yet! One thing at a time.

I'm just hoping against hope I can draft the newest chapter tomorrow and then move into fixing stuff and preparing the talk. Ugh. It gives me a headache to think about, but it will be done soon.

Day "16" ...We're back.

It's been a big month and a half since my last post. Yes I did stop writing. I had planned to spend 4 days looking at data and then getting back to writing. It turned out I needed 3 weeks to do the data, and then I got busy having a baby. Things been nuts.

But today I'm back at it and killing it. Between outlining findings for Chapter 7 and drafting Chapter 4 I put down a record 5376 words today over about 4 hours. It helped that I've submitted the study from Chapter 4 many times since early 2016. I lifted a bunch of text from my last rejected CHI submission. But hey it was my work in the first place.

Anyway, things are up against insane deadlines now. I'm not even going to review it right now. I'll just say that I need a hard first draft of Chapters 6 and 7 by Monday or else things are not looking good for finishing on time.

Send good vibes.

And here's the kid.