It's been a while.

Just start writing and see where it leads. After getting into a little bit of (let's call it...) trouble with my supervisor, I have been working, *koff* reading, hard. The trouble is that I need to submit a project proposal, explaining the big picture of my project and chunking down to the knitty-gritty science of it all. I am required by University rules to submit this document to the people in charge, by early November. Good thing I cottoned on to this deadline a few weeks back, it could have been worse.

However there has been progress. Not much on my PhD as yet, other than mounds of reading and starting a reference library to keep track of everything I've been reading. The most obvious progress has been on my other part-time job / reasearch / MPhil in Civil Engineering. The project is now off the ground I have some initial data which could actually make it into the early part of a paper or report or dissertation. All of what I've got so far has a deadline of early September.

What I've found over the last day or so is that inspiration for writing all of this up, (and a blog in between) is not plucked out of nowhere. It's simply a state where I find that the words appear, initially by force and logical thinking and then by some magical mysterious power they just come to be, written in shorthand somewhere.

My wild ideas about having things organised in order for something to be written (the downside of having been an operations manager) is rather short sighted. And I should know better. So over the next few days, this'll all be about consciously accessing a state of writing, where necessary reaching for a dictionary or thesaurus to access an extend vocabulary too. Hopefully be the end of next week there'll be a real and tangible something appearing out of all the time I've spent reading.

Thanks for reading... I have some writing to do.