All that writing, and voila! I have a draft of a chapter/essay thing. Even workshopped it with Cara on Sunday and reworked the intro yesterday thanks to her sharp eye. Which I guess makes it a second draft.
Unlike so many of the other parts of this study for which organization has been a real sticking point, this part suggested a larger organization early on that I've stuck with, and that works. That organization is--gasp--chronological. I guess since it's a genealogy of sorts, a chronology kinda makes sense, but with Burke, whose publications were often either delayed ("Auscultation, Creation, and Revision," e.g., languished for more than 60 years) or printed in multiple places, and who put so many of his books through multiple revisions, chronology is a little trickier than with other writers. And more revealing.
I still, of course, need to add a bunch of stuff to the footnotes and do the works cited, what my textbook partner Sharon Crowley likes to call "endgame" issues (before I was her co-author I was her research assistant, so we've been through at least three endgames together). I thought of asking my research assistant to help me with these endgame issues, because I left most of the citations til the end for cranking's sake, and because I abandoned EndNote back in grad school. But having heard from other graduate students that my RA scorns non-EndNote users, I have decided to do all that myself. I will not be scorned! Though maybe I should be.
Any pro or con EndNoters out there? Lemme have it.
