Brief Regular Sessions
Writing, in 45-minute intervals.
Goal, per diem: min. 1; max. 5.
2012
November 26 2 Worked on draft of VM and the Art of Prayer, chapter 3.
November 27 2 Worked on draft of VM and the Art of Prayer, chapter 3.
November 28 1 1/2 Worked on draft of VM and the Art of Prayer, chapter 3.
November 29 3 Worked on draft of VM and the Art of Prayer, chapter 3.
December 3 4 Worked on draft of VM and the Art of Prayer, chapter 3.
December 4 2 1/2 Worked on draft of VM and the Art of Prayer, chapter 3.
December 5 4 Worked on draft of VM and the Art of Prayer, chapter 3.
December 6 2 Worked on draft of VM and the Art of Prayer, chapter 3. Total words to date: 9245 (including introduction drafted in July 2009, section from book review written August 2012, and outline). Words drafted in the past two weeks: 4105. Not bad, not bad!
December 10 4 Worked on draft of VM and the Art of Prayer, chapter 3. Word count to date: 9004 (excluding outline).
December 11 3 Worked on draft of VM and the Art of Prayer, chapter 3. Word count to date: 9634.
December 12 4 Worked on draft of VM and the Art of Prayer, chapter 3. Word count to date: 10657.
December 13 2+ Worked on draft of VM and the Art of Prayer, chapter 3. Word count to date: 11203.
December 14 4 Worked on draft of VM and the Art of Prayer, chapter 3. Word count to date: 12493.
December 17 4+ Worked on draft of VM and the Art of Prayer, chapter 3. Word count to date: 13521.
December 18 2+ (this is not good--it means I am having a hard time stopping at the end of each interval) Worked on draft of VM and the Art of Prayer, chapter 3. Word count to date: 14174.
December 19 4+ (still having trouble stopping!) Worked on draft of VM and the Art of Prayer, chapter 3. Word count to date: 15612.
December 20 4+ (sigh, not great at letting go this week!) Worked on draft of VM and the Art of Prayer, chapter 3. Word count to date: 16785.
December 21 4+ (yup, pretty much ignoring the bell) Worked on draft of VM and the Art of Prayer, chapter 3. Word count to date: 17675. Words drafted this week: 5182. Wow.
December 24 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 3. Word count to date: 18754.
December 26 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 3. Word count to date: 19776.
December 27 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 3. Word count to date: 21007.
December 28 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 3. Word count to date: 22780 (lots of quotations today, but still wrote about 1000 words). Words drafted this week: 5105.
December 31 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 3. Word count to date: 24423.
2013
January 1 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 3. Finished section "Astitit regina". Word count to date: 25514.
January 2 3+ (but actually more like 4+; I really didn't stop with the timer after no. 3) Worked on draft of chapter 3. Word count to date: 26569.
January 3 2++ (Not entirely sure, but something like three or fours at the keyboard) Worked on draft of chapter 3 (yes, it's getting a bit long, but I am working on a new section now). Word count to date: 27143. Words drafted this week: 4363 (it's going to be slower at first while I get my bearings on this new section).
January 8 2 Worked on draft of chapter 3. Working now on second section, for which I have started a new file. Word count from first section: 25082. Word count to date in second section: 1985. Words today: 417.
January 10 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 3. Word count to date: 2952.
January 11 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 3. Word count to date: 4235. Words drafted this week: 2757.
January 14 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 3. Word count to date: 5712.
January 15 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 3. Word count to date: 6583.
January 16 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 3. Word count to date: 7956.
January 17 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 3. Word count to date: 8869.
January 18 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 3. Word count to date: 10265. Words drafted this week: 6030.
January 21 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 3. Word count to date: 11533.
January 22 2 1/2 Worked on draft of chapter 3. Word count to date: 12552.
January 23 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 3. Finished section on Matins! Word count to date: 14067. Words drafted this week: 3802. Now for something completely different...well, not entirely.
January 24 4+ Wrote abstract for festschrift article. Brainstormed about psalms, looked for bibliography, thought about graduate course on psalms.
January 25 4+ Took notes on Cassiodorus and Augustine on the psalms.
January 28 4+ Took notes on Augustine on the psalms.
January 29 4 Figured out the structure of the psalmody for the Marian day hours. Word count to date: 14552.
January 30 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 3. Word count to date: 15532.
January 31 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 3. Word count to date: 16578.
February 1 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 3. Word count to date: 17519. Words drafted this week: 3452.
February 4 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 3. Word count to date: 19100.
February 5 3 Worked on draft of chapter 3. Word count to date: 19951.
February 6 4++ (an intense session today) Worked on draft of chapter 3, made difficult decision how to limit the discussion of the psalms for the day hours. Word count to date: 21175.
February 7 4 Worked on draft of chapter 3. Word count to date: 22386.
February 8 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 3. Word count to date: 23621. Words drafted this week: 6102. No wonder I've been so tired this week!
February 11 3++ (I lost track of my timer, not the most focused day) Worked on draft of chapter 3. Word count to date: 24624.
February 12 4 Worked on draft of chapter 3. Word count to date: 25871.
February 13 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 3. Word count to date: 27606. Yes, it's getting a bit long, but we're already to Vespers.
February 14 3+tears Worked on draft of chapter 3. Got rejection for proposal for translation. Word count to date: 29096. Words drafted this week: 5475.
February 18 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 3. Word count to date: 30405.
February 19 2+ Worked on draft of chapter 3. Word count to date: 31026.
February 20 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 3. Word count to date: 32015.
February 21 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 3. Word count to date: 33458.
February 22 2+ Worked on draft of chapter 3. Finished section "Qui creavit"! Word count to date: 34124. Words drafted this week: 5028. FINISHED DRAFT OF CHAPTER 3.
February 25 4 or thereabouts Printed out draft thus far, started thinking about what to read for next chapter.
February 26 4+ Started reading Richard of St. Laurent, De laudibus beatae Mariae virginis.
February 27 4+ Reading Richard, De laudibus. Thinking about chapters 4 and 5.
February 28 4+ Reading Richard, De laudibus.
March 1 4+ Reading Richard, De laudibus. Up to p. 207 (out of 841).
March 4 4+ Reading Richard, De laudibus.
March 5 4+ Reading Richard, De laudibus.
March 6 4+ Reading Richard, De laudibus.
March 7 4+ Reading Richard, De laudibus. Up to p. 410.
March 11 4+ Reading Richard, De laudibus.
March 12 4+ Reading Richard, De laudibus.
March 13 5 Reading Richard, De laudibus. Up to p. 565.
March 18 5 Reading Richard, De laudibus.
March 19 3 Reading Richard, De laudibus.
March 20 5 Reading Richard, De laudibus.
March 21 5 Reading Richard, De laudibus. Going slightly nutty....
March 22 4 1/2 Reading Richard, De laudibus. Up to p. 786.
March 25 4 Reading Richard, De laudibus. Ave Maria!
March 26 2+ Reading Richard, De laudibus. FINISHED!
March 27 4 Read article on Richard (in German). Read a bit of Ovid, Metamorphoses.
March 28 2 Practiced translating Ovid, Metamorphoses. Need to get a better sense of John of Garland's models.
March 29 2 More Ovid practice.
April 1 4 Still more Ovid practice. Time to get back on the horse.
April 2 4 Screwed my courage to the sticking post and looked over the comments on my translation.
April 3 4 Continued working through comments.
April 8 4 Started working on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 882.
April 9 5+ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 2415.
April 10 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 3483.
April 11 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 4345.
April 12 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 5120.
April 15 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 6103.
April 16 2 Pre-writing for next section of chapter 4.
April 17 4 (or thereabouts, I forgot the timer after 3) Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 7120.
April 18 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 8315.
April 19 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 9654. Words drafted this week: 4534.
April 22 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 10741.
April 23 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 12260.
April 24 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 13810.
April 25 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 15179.
April 26 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 16462. Words drafted this week: 6808. Rocking Richard!
April 29 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 18281.
April 30 2+ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 19310.
May 1 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 21268.
May 2 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 22807.
May 3 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 24334. Words drafted this week: 7872. And still more Richard yet to come! Glad March was worth it.
May 6 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 25767.
May 7 2+++ (I really ignored the timer today.) Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 26954.
May 8 3++ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 28499.
May 9 3++ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 29601.
May 10 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 30922. Words drafted this week: 6588. Almost done with Richard...
May 13 2+ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 31912. FINISHED DISCUSSION OF RICHARD! Time for a break....
May 16 4 Worked on translation of John of Garland, Epithalamium book 1.
May 17 3 Worked on translation of John of Garland, book 1.
May 20 4 Worked on text and notes to translation of John of Garland, book 1.
May 21 2 Worked on notes to translation of John of Garland, book 1.
May 22 2+ Worked on proposal for translation.
May 23 3+ Started reading Conrad of Saxony, Speculum b.M.v.
May 24 4++ Reading Conrad, Speculum.
May 27 4+ Reading Conrad, Speculum.
May 28 2+ Reading pseudo-Albert, Mariale.
May 29 5+ Reading pseudo-Albert, Mariale.
May 30 3+ Reading pseudo-Albert, Mariale. Off the timer all week: reading stories about miracles of the Virgin. Nearly ready to start writing again....
June 3 4+ (although I forgot to set the timer for the second two) Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date on this section: 1241.
June 4 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 2695.
June 5 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 4265.
June 6 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 5793. Started coming down with flu...
June 7 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 7535.
June 10 5+ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 8997.
June 11 2+ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 9680.
June 12 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 11044.
June 13 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 12536.
June 14 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 14115. Words drafted this week (by a minor miracle, given how terrible I felt): 6580.
June 17 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 15701.
June 18 2+ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 16601. FINISHED DRAFT OF CHAPTER 4!
June 19 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 846.
June 20 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 2438.
June 21 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 4250. Words drafted this week: 6736.
June 24 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 5580.
June 25 2+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 5763.
June 26 3++ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 6704. Finished introduction--the argument is in place!
June 27 3++ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 8160.
June 28 5+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 9982. Words drafted this week: 5732.
July 8 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 11798.
July 9 4++ (Had a hard time stopping this afternoon, must watch that!) Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 13271.
July 10 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 14721.
July 11 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 15918.
July 12 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 17390. Words drafted this week: 7408 (better than I thought, given how difficult this section has been to write!)
July 15 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Finished first of two main sections. Word count to date: 19050 (although honesty compels me to note that some of those words are pasted from a blog post I did four years ago when I was first starting on this project and didn't quite know how I might use the material--120,000 or so words later, I figured it out!)
July 16 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 20441.
July 17 3++ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 21075. Transitioning to next section...
July 18 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 22573.
July 19 5+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 23879. Words drafted this week: 6489.
July 22 5+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 25570.
July 23 2+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 26236.
July 24 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 27946.
July 25 5+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 29920.
July 26 5+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 31512. Words drafted this week: 7633. This chapter is going to be somewhat longer than I planned, surprise surprise....
July 29 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 32768.
July 30 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 34525.
July 31 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 36263.
August 1 5+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 37739.
August 2 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 39151. Words drafted this week: 7639.
August 5 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 40951.
August 6 2+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 42056.
August 7 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 43700. Words drafted this week: 4549. Time for a proper vacation!
August 26 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 45097.
August 27 2+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 45902.
August 28 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 46957.
August 29 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 48514.
August 30 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 49841. Words drafted this week: 6141.
September 2 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 51248.
September 3 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 52628.
September 4 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 54365.
September 5 5+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 55773.
September 6 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 57313. Words drafted this week: 7472. Almost there...
September 9 2+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 58010. FINISHED DRAFT OF CHAPTER 5! I think I may faint...
September 17 4+ Worked on draft of epilogue. Word count to date: 1257.
September 18 4 1/2 Worked on draft of epilogue. Word count to date: 2443.
September 19 4+ Worked on draft of epilogue. Word count to date: 4579.
September 20 5++ Worked on draft of epilogue. Word count to date: 5958. Only a week before term starts! Must finish this soon--it was supposed to be short!
September 23 4++ Worked on draft of epilogue. Word count to date: 7782. This is not a chapter, this is not a chapter...
September 24 2+ Worked on draft of epilogue. Word count to date: 8868. Okay, I really do need to start getting ready for term.
October 1 2+ Worked on draft of epilogue. Word count to date: 9635.
October 3 4+ Worked on draft of epilogue. Word count to date: 10991. FINISHED DRAFT OF EPILOGUE!
October 8 2+ Worked on draft of introduction. Word count to date: 496.
October 10 3++ Worked on draft of introduction. Word count to date: 1489.
October 15 2++ Worked on draft of introduction. Word count to date: 2243.
October 17 2 Worked on draft of introduction. Word count to date: 2625. Sigh. Gone are the days of 6,000 or more words a week. Still, 2625 is better than none.
October 18 2 Worked on draft of introduction. Word count to date: 3228. Words drafted this week: 1739.
October 22 2+ Worked on draft of introduction. Word count to date: 4015.
October 24 2++ Worked on draft of introduction. Word count to date: 4975. FINISHED DRAFT OF INTRODUCTION! Ladies and gentleman, I have a book! Now all it needs is footnotes, bibliography, appendices, and, oh, yes, a publisher....
Goal, per diem: min. 1; max. 5.
2012
November 26 2 Worked on draft of VM and the Art of Prayer, chapter 3.
November 27 2 Worked on draft of VM and the Art of Prayer, chapter 3.
November 28 1 1/2 Worked on draft of VM and the Art of Prayer, chapter 3.
November 29 3 Worked on draft of VM and the Art of Prayer, chapter 3.
December 3 4 Worked on draft of VM and the Art of Prayer, chapter 3.
December 4 2 1/2 Worked on draft of VM and the Art of Prayer, chapter 3.
December 5 4 Worked on draft of VM and the Art of Prayer, chapter 3.
December 6 2 Worked on draft of VM and the Art of Prayer, chapter 3. Total words to date: 9245 (including introduction drafted in July 2009, section from book review written August 2012, and outline). Words drafted in the past two weeks: 4105. Not bad, not bad!
December 10 4 Worked on draft of VM and the Art of Prayer, chapter 3. Word count to date: 9004 (excluding outline).
December 11 3 Worked on draft of VM and the Art of Prayer, chapter 3. Word count to date: 9634.
December 12 4 Worked on draft of VM and the Art of Prayer, chapter 3. Word count to date: 10657.
December 13 2+ Worked on draft of VM and the Art of Prayer, chapter 3. Word count to date: 11203.
December 14 4 Worked on draft of VM and the Art of Prayer, chapter 3. Word count to date: 12493.
December 17 4+ Worked on draft of VM and the Art of Prayer, chapter 3. Word count to date: 13521.
December 18 2+ (this is not good--it means I am having a hard time stopping at the end of each interval) Worked on draft of VM and the Art of Prayer, chapter 3. Word count to date: 14174.
December 19 4+ (still having trouble stopping!) Worked on draft of VM and the Art of Prayer, chapter 3. Word count to date: 15612.
December 20 4+ (sigh, not great at letting go this week!) Worked on draft of VM and the Art of Prayer, chapter 3. Word count to date: 16785.
December 21 4+ (yup, pretty much ignoring the bell) Worked on draft of VM and the Art of Prayer, chapter 3. Word count to date: 17675. Words drafted this week: 5182. Wow.
December 24 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 3. Word count to date: 18754.
December 26 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 3. Word count to date: 19776.
December 27 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 3. Word count to date: 21007.
December 28 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 3. Word count to date: 22780 (lots of quotations today, but still wrote about 1000 words). Words drafted this week: 5105.
December 31 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 3. Word count to date: 24423.
2013
January 1 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 3. Finished section "Astitit regina". Word count to date: 25514.
January 2 3+ (but actually more like 4+; I really didn't stop with the timer after no. 3) Worked on draft of chapter 3. Word count to date: 26569.
January 3 2++ (Not entirely sure, but something like three or fours at the keyboard) Worked on draft of chapter 3 (yes, it's getting a bit long, but I am working on a new section now). Word count to date: 27143. Words drafted this week: 4363 (it's going to be slower at first while I get my bearings on this new section).
January 8 2 Worked on draft of chapter 3. Working now on second section, for which I have started a new file. Word count from first section: 25082. Word count to date in second section: 1985. Words today: 417.
January 10 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 3. Word count to date: 2952.
January 11 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 3. Word count to date: 4235. Words drafted this week: 2757.
January 14 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 3. Word count to date: 5712.
January 15 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 3. Word count to date: 6583.
January 16 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 3. Word count to date: 7956.
January 17 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 3. Word count to date: 8869.
January 18 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 3. Word count to date: 10265. Words drafted this week: 6030.
January 21 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 3. Word count to date: 11533.
January 22 2 1/2 Worked on draft of chapter 3. Word count to date: 12552.
January 23 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 3. Finished section on Matins! Word count to date: 14067. Words drafted this week: 3802. Now for something completely different...well, not entirely.
January 24 4+ Wrote abstract for festschrift article. Brainstormed about psalms, looked for bibliography, thought about graduate course on psalms.
January 25 4+ Took notes on Cassiodorus and Augustine on the psalms.
January 28 4+ Took notes on Augustine on the psalms.
January 29 4 Figured out the structure of the psalmody for the Marian day hours. Word count to date: 14552.
January 30 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 3. Word count to date: 15532.
January 31 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 3. Word count to date: 16578.
February 1 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 3. Word count to date: 17519. Words drafted this week: 3452.
February 4 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 3. Word count to date: 19100.
February 5 3 Worked on draft of chapter 3. Word count to date: 19951.
February 6 4++ (an intense session today) Worked on draft of chapter 3, made difficult decision how to limit the discussion of the psalms for the day hours. Word count to date: 21175.
February 7 4 Worked on draft of chapter 3. Word count to date: 22386.
February 8 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 3. Word count to date: 23621. Words drafted this week: 6102. No wonder I've been so tired this week!
February 11 3++ (I lost track of my timer, not the most focused day) Worked on draft of chapter 3. Word count to date: 24624.
February 12 4 Worked on draft of chapter 3. Word count to date: 25871.
February 13 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 3. Word count to date: 27606. Yes, it's getting a bit long, but we're already to Vespers.
February 14 3+tears Worked on draft of chapter 3. Got rejection for proposal for translation. Word count to date: 29096. Words drafted this week: 5475.
February 18 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 3. Word count to date: 30405.
February 19 2+ Worked on draft of chapter 3. Word count to date: 31026.
February 20 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 3. Word count to date: 32015.
February 21 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 3. Word count to date: 33458.
February 22 2+ Worked on draft of chapter 3. Finished section "Qui creavit"! Word count to date: 34124. Words drafted this week: 5028. FINISHED DRAFT OF CHAPTER 3.
February 25 4 or thereabouts Printed out draft thus far, started thinking about what to read for next chapter.
February 26 4+ Started reading Richard of St. Laurent, De laudibus beatae Mariae virginis.
February 27 4+ Reading Richard, De laudibus. Thinking about chapters 4 and 5.
February 28 4+ Reading Richard, De laudibus.
March 1 4+ Reading Richard, De laudibus. Up to p. 207 (out of 841).
March 4 4+ Reading Richard, De laudibus.
March 5 4+ Reading Richard, De laudibus.
March 6 4+ Reading Richard, De laudibus.
March 7 4+ Reading Richard, De laudibus. Up to p. 410.
March 11 4+ Reading Richard, De laudibus.
March 12 4+ Reading Richard, De laudibus.
March 13 5 Reading Richard, De laudibus. Up to p. 565.
March 18 5 Reading Richard, De laudibus.
March 19 3 Reading Richard, De laudibus.
March 20 5 Reading Richard, De laudibus.
March 21 5 Reading Richard, De laudibus. Going slightly nutty....
March 22 4 1/2 Reading Richard, De laudibus. Up to p. 786.
March 25 4 Reading Richard, De laudibus. Ave Maria!
March 26 2+ Reading Richard, De laudibus. FINISHED!
March 27 4 Read article on Richard (in German). Read a bit of Ovid, Metamorphoses.
March 28 2 Practiced translating Ovid, Metamorphoses. Need to get a better sense of John of Garland's models.
March 29 2 More Ovid practice.
April 1 4 Still more Ovid practice. Time to get back on the horse.
April 2 4 Screwed my courage to the sticking post and looked over the comments on my translation.
April 3 4 Continued working through comments.
April 8 4 Started working on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 882.
April 9 5+ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 2415.
April 10 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 3483.
April 11 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 4345.
April 12 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 5120.
April 15 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 6103.
April 16 2 Pre-writing for next section of chapter 4.
April 17 4 (or thereabouts, I forgot the timer after 3) Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 7120.
April 18 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 8315.
April 19 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 9654. Words drafted this week: 4534.
April 22 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 10741.
April 23 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 12260.
April 24 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 13810.
April 25 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 15179.
April 26 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 16462. Words drafted this week: 6808. Rocking Richard!
April 29 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 18281.
April 30 2+ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 19310.
May 1 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 21268.
May 2 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 22807.
May 3 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 24334. Words drafted this week: 7872. And still more Richard yet to come! Glad March was worth it.
May 6 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 25767.
May 7 2+++ (I really ignored the timer today.) Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 26954.
May 8 3++ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 28499.
May 9 3++ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 29601.
May 10 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 30922. Words drafted this week: 6588. Almost done with Richard...
May 13 2+ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 31912. FINISHED DISCUSSION OF RICHARD! Time for a break....
May 16 4 Worked on translation of John of Garland, Epithalamium book 1.
May 17 3 Worked on translation of John of Garland, book 1.
May 20 4 Worked on text and notes to translation of John of Garland, book 1.
May 21 2 Worked on notes to translation of John of Garland, book 1.
May 22 2+ Worked on proposal for translation.
May 23 3+ Started reading Conrad of Saxony, Speculum b.M.v.
May 24 4++ Reading Conrad, Speculum.
May 27 4+ Reading Conrad, Speculum.
May 28 2+ Reading pseudo-Albert, Mariale.
May 29 5+ Reading pseudo-Albert, Mariale.
May 30 3+ Reading pseudo-Albert, Mariale. Off the timer all week: reading stories about miracles of the Virgin. Nearly ready to start writing again....
June 3 4+ (although I forgot to set the timer for the second two) Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date on this section: 1241.
June 4 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 2695.
June 5 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 4265.
June 6 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 5793. Started coming down with flu...
June 7 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 7535.
June 10 5+ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 8997.
June 11 2+ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 9680.
June 12 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 11044.
June 13 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 12536.
June 14 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 14115. Words drafted this week (by a minor miracle, given how terrible I felt): 6580.
June 17 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 15701.
June 18 2+ Worked on draft of chapter 4. Word count to date: 16601. FINISHED DRAFT OF CHAPTER 4!
June 19 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 846.
June 20 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 2438.
June 21 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 4250. Words drafted this week: 6736.
June 24 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 5580.
June 25 2+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 5763.
June 26 3++ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 6704. Finished introduction--the argument is in place!
June 27 3++ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 8160.
June 28 5+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 9982. Words drafted this week: 5732.
July 8 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 11798.
July 9 4++ (Had a hard time stopping this afternoon, must watch that!) Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 13271.
July 10 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 14721.
July 11 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 15918.
July 12 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 17390. Words drafted this week: 7408 (better than I thought, given how difficult this section has been to write!)
July 15 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Finished first of two main sections. Word count to date: 19050 (although honesty compels me to note that some of those words are pasted from a blog post I did four years ago when I was first starting on this project and didn't quite know how I might use the material--120,000 or so words later, I figured it out!)
July 16 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 20441.
July 17 3++ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 21075. Transitioning to next section...
July 18 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 22573.
July 19 5+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 23879. Words drafted this week: 6489.
July 22 5+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 25570.
July 23 2+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 26236.
July 24 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 27946.
July 25 5+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 29920.
July 26 5+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 31512. Words drafted this week: 7633. This chapter is going to be somewhat longer than I planned, surprise surprise....
July 29 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 32768.
July 30 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 34525.
July 31 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 36263.
August 1 5+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 37739.
August 2 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 39151. Words drafted this week: 7639.
August 5 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 40951.
August 6 2+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 42056.
August 7 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 43700. Words drafted this week: 4549. Time for a proper vacation!
August 26 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 45097.
August 27 2+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 45902.
August 28 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 46957.
August 29 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 48514.
August 30 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 49841. Words drafted this week: 6141.
September 2 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 51248.
September 3 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 52628.
September 4 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 54365.
September 5 5+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 55773.
September 6 4+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 57313. Words drafted this week: 7472. Almost there...
September 9 2+ Worked on draft of chapter 5. Word count to date: 58010. FINISHED DRAFT OF CHAPTER 5! I think I may faint...
September 17 4+ Worked on draft of epilogue. Word count to date: 1257.
September 18 4 1/2 Worked on draft of epilogue. Word count to date: 2443.
September 19 4+ Worked on draft of epilogue. Word count to date: 4579.
September 20 5++ Worked on draft of epilogue. Word count to date: 5958. Only a week before term starts! Must finish this soon--it was supposed to be short!
September 23 4++ Worked on draft of epilogue. Word count to date: 7782. This is not a chapter, this is not a chapter...
September 24 2+ Worked on draft of epilogue. Word count to date: 8868. Okay, I really do need to start getting ready for term.
October 1 2+ Worked on draft of epilogue. Word count to date: 9635.
October 3 4+ Worked on draft of epilogue. Word count to date: 10991. FINISHED DRAFT OF EPILOGUE!
October 8 2+ Worked on draft of introduction. Word count to date: 496.
October 10 3++ Worked on draft of introduction. Word count to date: 1489.
October 15 2++ Worked on draft of introduction. Word count to date: 2243.
October 17 2 Worked on draft of introduction. Word count to date: 2625. Sigh. Gone are the days of 6,000 or more words a week. Still, 2625 is better than none.
October 18 2 Worked on draft of introduction. Word count to date: 3228. Words drafted this week: 1739.
October 22 2+ Worked on draft of introduction. Word count to date: 4015.
October 24 2++ Worked on draft of introduction. Word count to date: 4975. FINISHED DRAFT OF INTRODUCTION! Ladies and gentleman, I have a book! Now all it needs is footnotes, bibliography, appendices, and, oh, yes, a publisher....
