I'm in the throes of my results chapter now, officially. I'm simply writing up the facts as I saw them in the study. It's a bit refreshing not to be attributing every other sentence to somebody else. I'm slowly getting accustomed to writing sentences starting with, "I found..." or "I viewed..." or "I heard...". Me me me, all about me. Guess I'm finally finding my own voice in this process.
So why did I feel like I was going to throw up yesterday when I got together with my writing group? I sounded like the worried Rose (Olympia Dukakis) in Moonstruck. I sat writing in the cafe, wringing my hands, groaning with worry, wondering what I'm missing. This seems too easy. I'm cranking out text, telling the story in my own words, placing quotes where appropriate, and it's easy? The chapter I thought was going to kick my ass for the past six months or more is easy? Are you fucking kidding me?
On second thought, it better be easy. I mean, I've been looking at the interviews, spinning my wheels about all this for YEARS at this point. I practically have these 14 interviews memorized. It shouldn't be a surprise that it's easy.
But it still makes me want to throw up.
So. I guess it's going well.
3 comments:
Maybe bifocals will keep you from having the urge to throw up....
looking forward to reading the TFD.
xo
Hey! Yipee, so glad to hear that you are at this point!
And dangit, yes, the big picture should be coming into the view at this point with all the working with the data you've done up to this point! :o)
I'd say that throwing up is a pretty normal reaction at this stage. Hang in there.
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