Words typed so far: 23,408
Words typed this week: 2071
Words lost this week: 0
Total increase: 2071
Days I managed to write this week: 4
Right this is my second attempt at writing this and that is about par for the course of this week. The figures look fine but everything has felt like wading through thick oily mud, whether it was sitting down to write for half an hour or the editing up session today. Writing just does not seem to have been on the same steady flow it was before Christmas. This might have to do with the fact that I had the break from formal writing. I was still reading and writing sketches based on my placements but I was not formally writing up. It may also have to do with the fact I have a cold or maybe just that this week is jinxed.
Anyway the good news is I am on the first data chapter, this one is on location/space and place and at present I am trying to gather the literature together and present it. The main problem is that I am not sure that the literature is talking to each other, but I think I am at last managing to build together something that makes sort of sense for a social understanding of space. There are also some sociologist of religion dealing with sacred space and even others in congregational studies who deal with space and location. I suppose the good news is that I am increasingly becoming confident that I am going to be able to build the thesis I want to into my thesis. Perhaps more accurately that I am beginning to find the complex ways that congregations use tradition to shape their identity.
Next week I am back to writing methodology basically because I need a prologue to what I have written and then the rest of that weekend and the next will be spent knocking the methodology chapter into some sort of form where by it can be laid to down to mature while I get on writing other chapters. I also have more books on space and still others I need to read and write about.
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