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OK I'm on day 3 of Actually Writing and at 7000 words (of which I'll probably end up ripping out a bunch but better to get those garbage words done sooner than later?)
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OK to be completely transparent it's 6998 words
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14, 392
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16,650 which is a drop from the streak of the last couple of days because I didn't get started until noon, but it's fine
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18,035--like pulling teeth today, kind of just hit a hard patch that I have to wrestle with a bit. hopefully tomorrow will be better.
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20,316
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23,960
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27,096 and I might get a little more in today?
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28,937 which is not a lot words-wise but I think...these two chapters are done or at least as done as they can be for sending to my committee?
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Sent draft chapters to my committee, very anticlimactic end to writing 28K words in 12 days to just send an email
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done today, for a new chapter: 1,729—not a ton but there's kind of more thinking-through-the-structure work that has to go in here and I got a later start because I did a research interview in the morning
total: 30,666 (hell yeah 666)
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2,535 today / 33,201 total
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OK I know there are Bigger Things happening today but for what it's worth
2,423 / 35,624
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having to do a lot more document checking for this chapter so it's moving slower but now that I know 10K words is like "normal" chapter length I am less freaked out
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2,837 written today / 38,461 but I might cut a section I wrote yesterday so maybe more like 37,449 total
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1446 written / 38,409 total because of editing stuff out
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1389 written today with lots of edits and moving around / 39,798 total
Got first notes back for a chapter submitted 10 days ago so updates might become more about cutting words than adding them, which is probably good
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Actually added a few more words and maybe chapter 1 is done for now?
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1,903 / but a lot of it was revision and cutting stuff so total is down to 39,365 whooo
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Got basically nowhere on revisions today because it turns out still being mad at my advisor for mismanaging money and lying about it makes me very hostile to her feedback even if some of it is reasonable! I will get past this it's just annoying
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I know I am being a baby but it is annoying to get feedback encouraging me to add contextual and analytical obvious stuff for a hypothetical undergrad reader in my dissertation when said dissertation will in fact only be read in its entirety by this committee, possibly not even all of them
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1329 / more of a "writing lit annotations so I can work them into this chapter revision" than additive but still useful I think?
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2003 / but it was a blog post to think through some stuff for the dissertation, not the dissertation (but the stuff on planet scale and capitalist realism I think I might run with)
https://placing.technology/working-through-some-stuff-for-chapter-3
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1012 / big refactoring of chapter underway, I think it's the right approach but it's pretty tedious ugh
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@ingrid yessss!! and yeah just get some words out for now, totally ok and expected to rip em out later
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@darius the faster I write the bad sentences the sooner I can do the good sentences
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@ingrid we're each a single monkey on a single typewriter
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@ingrid I am also currently in the bad words to get to good words. Did a body doubling with a friend called “make words happen “ … no value judgments
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@ingrid 🤞 making words happen +++++. Sorry that it was a rough one.
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@ingrid What is the rough # end-goal you are shooting for?
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@namhenderson no more than 30 I guess?
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@namhenderson for this chapter specifically
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@ingrid pull the teeth that need pulling! the dissertation will have the bite it needs
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@ingrid FUCK IT UP
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@ingrid It might feel anticlimactic, but its also huge! I know whenever I would finish a chapter draft I'd both feel relief and then a daunting anxiety because there always was MORE TO DO, which cut the joy of it.
I hope the committee's review goes well!
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@ingrid if such a thing would be helpful or useful, i'm happy to provide feedback whenever!
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@ian currently on the GUI desktop gis chapter (MapInfo and Esri mostly) if that's your bag
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@ingrid i've only ever done qgis before so i think i'm qualified to give lots of opinions about MapInfo and Esri
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@ingrid Seriously, that is a very weird demand.
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@mjd I think some of it comes from the fact that she is out of her depth with my particular field of research and she's trying to make herself feel relevant?
Naïveté about “open” maps
@ingrid Your post reminds me of a project I worked on almost 15 years ago - mapping land grabs. I would say perhaps not the technical geo people themselves, but there was a lot of naivete among all actors (minus local people) about net good, a priori, of open maps. And about scales. The notion that mapping ancestral claims to land of locally powerless people would somehow protect them as opposed to signpost and open their land up to global capital. There was no recognition of invisibility and hiding in plain sight as a strategy of the oppressed. (And irrespective of who built these online infrastructures, irrespective of who “owned” them, if anybody, they would tend to benefit those who already had power.)
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10,255 today