Building a Routine

So, I'm back from a truly wonderful Thanksgiving weekend (though Victor lost a day to food poisoning - BOO).  (Photos here.)

Victor convinced me to go in to the office with him more frequently, which so far has been awesome.  I have an actual deadline coming up - I promised my dissertation buddy I'd get a new chapter to her by the 8th - so I'm particularly motivated right now.  Also, I'm working on having a more consistent schedule, because that's been the most productive strategy for me so far.

I'm tracking what's working and what's not in my daily freewriting, which has turned out to be wonderfully useful.  My basic schedule involves writing my own stuff (arguments, questions, insights) while I'm at SP during the day (I mentally refer to this as "BS writing" - hehe) and then writing material directly from my primary sources while I'm at home in the evening (my mental tag for that writing is "skeleton writing," because it provides the structure but none of the meat).

So far, part one of that plan's been working pretty well - years of graduate education have given me the ability to spin out my own thoughts and arguments pretty much endlessly - but the second part has yet to actually happen.  I might end up having skeleton writing just take place on the weekends, so that I don't need to worry about writing at night when I get home.  We will see.