The writing process mystifies me. The past few months I've been struggling with chapter 1, hardly making any progress, and then yesterday I produced over 3000 words. It's great that I can do something like that in one day but I wish my productivity were more evenly distributed. It'd be less stressful.
So, I haven't posted anything here in over a week. The main reason for this I was busy on chapter 1 trying to finish it and send it off to my supervisors, which I did last night at 11pm. I don't have a meeting with my supervisors until 7 July, which is two weeks away. However, it was important to submit chapter 1 yesterday because it was a self-imposed deadline. I needed to meet that target to beat myself back into shape. So, success! I will spend the time between now and the next supervision meeting planning what to do next, which is revise chapter 3. I'll also go through the thesis and determine where I need to insert figures, illustrations, maps, etc. The first draft of my thesis was woefully lacking in this aspect. I'll also read over chapter 1 before the supervision meeting, but I'll wait a couple of days before doing that.
I also now have time to work on the paper I'm presenting at the International Medieval Congress. My paper is titled Saint Alban: An Orthodox Martyr for Britain. I can probably recycle bits of my thesis for this paper. In chapter two of my thesis, I argue that Germanus of Auxerre invented the cult of Alban as part of his efforts to combat Pelagianism in Britain. Germanus was following the example of Ambrose of Milan, who also used saints' cults to promote orthodoxy over Arianism. I need to review what I've written on this topic so far, and determine how to fit it into 20 minute paper. I also need to determine if a Powerpoint presentation is called for. I requested a projector, but I'm not sure if I'll need it. Pictures are good though. They help keep the audience awake. Anyway, that's enough for now. Back to work.
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