Good morning and happy Monday! I need to write, finish and submit a book chapter (last year commitment, incredibly supportive research group, I can’t decline this late in the game). Deadline is Friday.

The challenge is #1500wordsaday until Friday and then take full weekend off.

The first step (for me) is to write an Initial Outline http://www.raulpacheco.org/2020/11/writing-papers-using-initial-outlines-and-detailed-outlines/

And then map out the writing strategy, start filling up Topic Sentences and Reflective Questions so I can get to the Detailed Outline

Once I create a Detailed Outline (helped by Topic Sentences and Reflective Questions) I move on to breaking down the work into Memorandums and expanding the Detailed Outline to make it as "full" as possible. http://www.raulpacheco.org/2020/11/expanding-detailed-outlines-into-memorandums-and-those-into-full-manuscripts/

First step, though: CAFFEINE.

Second step, Initial Outline.

Wish me luck! #1500wordaperday

If you're writing a book chapter, you can use this blog post that explains the process in a more synthetic way

http://www.raulpacheco.org/2018/07/how-to-write-a-book-chapter/

And if you need guidance on how to write the COMPONENTS of a research paper, this page hosts several of my blog posts http://www.raulpacheco.org/resources/academic-writing-acwri/writing-a-research-paper-book-chapter/

Here. We. Go. #GetYourManuscriptOut #AmWriting

1346 words, so far. #1500WordsPerDay

TO NOTE: I have spent YEARS thinking about water conflicts. I have all fieldwork notes, analyses, etc.

Writing this chapter should be easy because I've spent years thinking these case studies through. Not all writing goes like this.

This important to note: the weeks, months and years you spend ruminating, thinking, reading, drafting, scribbling, pondering, all that time is WRITING TIME, it's research!

Don't think that if I can crank a chapter out in a week it's totally new. It's been simmering in my head.