If you have sent me an email or posted on my blog that I should read your blog (Wes) :), I fully intend to reply at some point in time very soon. For now, though, I am quite busy.

I have decided that writing a book-length project is like writing a whole crowd of smaller papers. The outline represents this. To create the outline, you first write in the major points, I-VII. These are the overall project, and so they have to flow thematically on this basic level. However, each Roman numeral is also its own paper, with its own flow, and so on, down into the organizational tree. Although the 17-page section I already sent to Dr. Snyder (of which he approved!) was the introduction to my project, it was also its own paper with its own introduction, which happened to be three pages long. Then each section inside of it also had its own introduction, usually only a paragraph or so. I noticed this phenomenon today, because I was having trouble "flowing" from the end of my introduction into the next part. At last, I discovered that my difficulty rose out of the fact that I really needed to start another paper under my next Roman numeral. This new paper needed its own introduction, which turned out to be a little less than a page. Then all was well.

Pages written today: 5.5. Total: 22.5.
I have now officially written my longest research project ever. Each day from now on, that will be true. Isn't that exciting?  ¶ 7:45 PM