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Yes, somehow I have 300 fewer words than I did six hours ago, but I have 16 pages highly readable and another 8 getting there. Perhaps I should break and throw together more notes... I keep thinking that might be a good idea, and then I get into polishing the PF material again. It's not where I want it to be, of course, but it's where I need it to be for tomorrow.

I have a habit of, instead of working from where I left off, starting from the beginning again, so that I write a then b, then go back to a through b to c, then a b c d, then a b c d e, and so on, which means that the beginning, even if it doesn't say exactly what I want it to or lead logically to the end of the paper, reads pretty well, is remarkably more polished than the end, which has basically fallen apart (or, rather, not been put together) in comparison. I think I may have side-stepped that this time, however, but I'm not sure exactly what I'm doing differently. I have nine documents open and am cutting and pasting and editing and moving things all over the place, what have you. And I'm still building in one document and moving it to the one that says "draft" as I go, but somehow I'm a bit more organized this time. I think it has to do with Microsoft OneNote, which has been a lifesaver on this project, as I think I've mentioned before. I wish I would have known about it before two months ago. I love anything that lets me be scattered and organized at the same time.