why oh why

[athene]

why oh why can't i get this paper written?

I've been thinking about it for weeks. I've spent many hours looking through files, analyzing things, making charts, and preparing for this. I've written a number of pre-writing question answering lists. But it won't come together in a coherent way.

I guess it comes down to how I usually write papers: read everything/do all research, come up with an outline, write paper, revise paper. The problem with this paper is that there really isn't a good outline that I can come up with. I think the best solution is just to start writing and reorganize everything later. Not my favorite idea, but it'll get the job done.

Right, off to start writing. And, of course, this post just adds one more file to think about...

Comments

[sukipot.livejournal.com]

It's kind of like what I've been noticing in all my iSchool writing; I have to write first, organize later, and that's not how I like to do things. I think it still all comes out all right, but the process is still so alien to me I don't feel at all good about it while I'm going through it.

Good luck! (Back to my paper about cleaning magnetic wire recordings...)