Mitch’s Blog
When Do I Start Writing?
Wednesday, December 14, 2016
Having worked with hundreds of academic authors as their editor and ersatz psychologist, the consistent response to that question has been the desire to wait until you’re “ready” to write. But that’s a mistake. You should have started writing yesterday. Well, given the nature of the space-time continuum, start today.
I was puzzled when Harry Wolcott wrote in Writing Up Qualitative Research, “You cannot begin writing early enough…Write a preliminary draft of the study. Then begin the research.” But now I find the logic of it inescapable. You already know a lot about your topic. You’ve written an…
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