Sound Writing Practices }{ AcWriMo 2013 }{ Week 3
This is my log for #AcWriMo 2013. You can read my guiding philosophy for the exercise here, and my lofty goals here. Now let’s get on with my accountability.
Nov. 18th
* 4 Pomodoros on my job talk. Got a basic structure and the relevant text from various sources. Now it needs a major edit.
*2 Pomodoros finishing up my Week 2 post.
* 2 Pomodoros on my job talk. Down to 4000 words now, but need to cut another 1000 while shaping everything up into a coherent whole.
I’m trying to join my tasks here to mutual benefit, drawing from my book intro as the basis for my job talk, while using the short format of the talk to guide editing decisions to cut my intro in half.
Nov. 19th
* 1 hour meeting with my former supervisor / now mentor about my upcoming job talk. Which was also about the introduction to my book. Two for the price of one! It was great to get some perspective on this.
* 2 hour meeting with my current supervisor and his working group.
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Nov. 20th
Big plan today was to revise 8 paragraphs on my job talk in 8 Pomodoros. One Pomodoro each to get them in much better shape. And it worked! I got all 8 done before the 5 pm quitting bell (dictated by daycare pick-up time). Trouble is, I ended up writing quite a bit so the talk is now longer again. But I’ll work on that tomorrow. Then I got 1 hour in later in the evening on a job application due Friday.
Nov. 21st
Today’s plan was to cut my talk from 5000 to 3000 words, and I nearly made it. I ended up cutting by writing; that is, writing up on paragraph from scratch to cover the basics elements currently spread across two. Down to 3300 now. Tomorrow it needs to get down to 2500 which is the length I can read in 20 minutes with a few movie clips thrown in for good measure. It was a harder day today than yesterday. I got started a half hour earlier on everything, which felt great, and banged out my first four Pomodoros before noon – something I haven’t managed to do yet this AcWriMo. But then I had a lunch meeting down the road, and came back fresh but also a bit tired and so I did two more Pomodoros then took too long of a break while staying at the computer and ended up fizzling out during the last of 8. So, 7.5 Pomodoros for the day. Then came back late night for two hours to finish that job application due tomorrow.
Nov. 22nd
Woke up feeling the need to scrap half the work I did yesterday on my job talk and go with a different approach for the second half. Then blew my morning work session commiserating with the ex-academics at the local coffee house. Not the jump start I got yesterday, but good to know I’m not alone in my struggles. In the first ten minutes of a Pomodoro I came up with a way of re-framing one of my thesis chapters to exemplify the argument of my book, and all of a sudden I’m considering setting aside most of the work I’ve been struggling through this month and go with this new idea. It’s dangerous; I want to submit these chapters by first week of December. But the other chapter is very polished; I didn’t go with it first because
Nov. 23-24
Weekends are usually family time but as I hadn’t finished preparing my job talk I had to bite the bullet and get that done somewhere…
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