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I've just split the intro into sections, the headings that Jeff suggested, and realized that if I have it up at the 6,000-word end that Jeff thought was on the high side, each section only needs 500 words.
I made a schedule of which sections I'm going to write which night, too. Since I'm in the starting-essay mode now, that means I'm in a good place to slog through the dry history stuff (usually when I start an essay, I write way too much background in fear the essay'll be too short. So actually needing just a bit of history is a good thing). Tomorrow after I watch the rowing I'll write about nationalism, which is the fun book-stuff, and then Monday in the library I'll do research on language attitudes and learner motivations.
I have 3500 words in my template. Turns out the boring 13th-to-17th-century history I wrote weeks ago is 670 words, which is another section down. Jeff can also always tell me to take out details from that and put in a bit of intervening stuff, because as of now I'm going "Irish died down as a vernacular in 1700. LOOK allsasudden people wanted to revive it in 1893 yey!" But I have to do that without cutting myself slack just because I have the right number of words. Just because I have enough time to make a sort-of draft doesn't mean it should suck.
Study break! Downstairs for sorbet.
I made a schedule of which sections I'm going to write which night, too. Since I'm in the starting-essay mode now, that means I'm in a good place to slog through the dry history stuff (usually when I start an essay, I write way too much background in fear the essay'll be too short. So actually needing just a bit of history is a good thing). Tomorrow after I watch the rowing I'll write about nationalism, which is the fun book-stuff, and then Monday in the library I'll do research on language attitudes and learner motivations.
I have 3500 words in my template. Turns out the boring 13th-to-17th-century history I wrote weeks ago is 670 words, which is another section down. Jeff can also always tell me to take out details from that and put in a bit of intervening stuff, because as of now I'm going "Irish died down as a vernacular in 1700. LOOK allsasudden people wanted to revive it in 1893 yey!" But I have to do that without cutting myself slack just because I have the right number of words. Just because I have enough time to make a sort-of draft doesn't mean it should suck.
Study break! Downstairs for sorbet.