I spent yesterday combing through my texts on economic development, and trying to pick out the themes I want to talk about for the chapter More of the same this morning, and then a brainstorm about how to frame the chapter-that-used-to-be-two.
So I'm kind of burned out on economic development and back on the agglomeration chapter. I had started to reframe it as "everyday life" (hopefully I didn't get that from one of my peers in this field of study) as opposed to built environment, and now I am uncertain if I can make that work with "contested space." Maybe I should dump everyday life as an organizing principle? I don't want to be too derivative. I notice again and again how I've unconsciously (at least to me) absorbed so many ideas from my reading that I am always startled to re-read an article and notice that someone has "already thought of" my idea. When in reality I am sure I osmotically cribbed it from them, gah!
I read through the introduction chapter this morning and was impressed with how lucid it was. There is a lot less cleanup and editing to do there unless I seriously shift things around a lot in putting the whole puzzle together.
Speaking of which: one of the hardest things about writing a paper this long (I am expecting over 200 pages now) is that I can't keep the whole thing in mind anymore - I am so afraid I'll re-use materials, or worse, leave out a really good bit.
Posted by otto0114 at March 20, 2008 05:05 PM