InaDWriMo Checkin

After my conference weekend, I'm starting up diss month. I'm not actively writing anything new, but I'm pledging to revise three chapters this month (out of four!), making me basically done with revisions. This week, I've been working on Chapter 4; I'm about halfway through at the moment. Ch 3 and then 1 will follow. I finished one of my jobs so I'm only working part-time this month, though the job applications don't quit. This is all complicated, though, by the month of November itself. Since it's the anniversary of my mom's death this week, I'm anticipating being pretty unproductive on the diss front. Then it's my birthday, too, in a fortnight. So I'll do what I can.

Looking at the InaDWriMo acronym more critically, I realize that it can be read as 'in-a-dream-o,' which I will take as a challenge rather than discouragement. How are you all doing?

InaDWriMo (Int'l Dissertation Writing Month)

November is the (un)official International Dissertation Writing Month (InaDWriMo) which was fashioned last year after NaNoWriMo. Dr. Brazen Hussy is hosting this year. It's a plan to write everyday for a month. It's accountability. It's companionship. It's effective.

Here's what DBH says:

Here's the deal: It starts November 1 and ends November 30. You set your own goal (totally up to you), and keep a word meter or word count on your blog to track your progress. (here are a couple of word meters.) You can only count the words written in November. You can get as competitive and trash-talking as you like (*cough* see Weezy for an example). At the end, the winner... well, the winner gets the pride of a job well done. Or maybe I can send a postcard.

Since I'm striving to finish this dissertation by mid-spring, I'm going to pledge 20,000 words (or about 80 pages). This would take the form of my literature review and my third case study (of three). Now, I'm not saying this work will be pretty, but it will be a solid draft.

Come on and join the fun. You can sign up here.

Cross-posted at Parts-n-Pieces.