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Not posted on Friday, because I needed to dash out of the house and catch a train for the last show of Joel's tour on what was also the opening night of The Black Midwint3r Festival in Sheffield.
This post is part of a regular series made largely for my own benefit (LJ / DW). You can pretty much scroll right past.
Research
Words written: 536
Words cut: 220
Items read: 0
Problems solved: hard to quantify! (see below)
New sources identified:
New bimillennial events identified:
Augustan bimillennial events entered into my catalogue: 1
New publications identified:
New publications acquired:
I reached a bit of a milestone with the book this week, completing the section on Portugal which also meant I had finished covering the countries of western Europe. I've mainly just been churning out the words so far, but I have to submit some coherent chapters to a publisher by the end of January, so having finished Portugal I lifted my head up from the daily word-grind to think about what would be submittable and what needed doing by the end of January. Part of the answer was about ensuring stylistic consistency, so I made a few style-guide decisions (e.g. about how to handle quotations from non-English languages) and spent about a day applying those. But I also did some maths on the overall word-counts, which revealed that I have a Too Many Words problem. So I'm going to have to work on that in the coming weeks, including thinking about what could go from what I've already written what I could omit from the plan for what's yet to come.
Other
Pinned down the viva arrangements for a PhD I'm externalling.
Read and made notes on about 1/3 of the thesis.
This post is part of a regular series made largely for my own benefit (LJ / DW). You can pretty much scroll right past.
Research
Words written: 536
Words cut: 220
Items read: 0
Problems solved: hard to quantify! (see below)
New sources identified:
New bimillennial events identified:
Augustan bimillennial events entered into my catalogue: 1
New publications identified:
New publications acquired:
I reached a bit of a milestone with the book this week, completing the section on Portugal which also meant I had finished covering the countries of western Europe. I've mainly just been churning out the words so far, but I have to submit some coherent chapters to a publisher by the end of January, so having finished Portugal I lifted my head up from the daily word-grind to think about what would be submittable and what needed doing by the end of January. Part of the answer was about ensuring stylistic consistency, so I made a few style-guide decisions (e.g. about how to handle quotations from non-English languages) and spent about a day applying those. But I also did some maths on the overall word-counts, which revealed that I have a Too Many Words problem. So I'm going to have to work on that in the coming weeks, including thinking about what could go from what I've already written what I could omit from the plan for what's yet to come.
Other
Pinned down the viva arrangements for a PhD I'm externalling.
Read and made notes on about 1/3 of the thesis.
