10.19.10 In Class Reflection

Hello Dear Academic Writing Self~
Epiphanies are nice when they happen. They lend themselves to very nice learning and windows to wisdom. I have realized this week that when I am feeling overwhelmed I don't necessarily shut down, but I go into a form of auto-pilot. The interesting thing though... my mind doesn't stop "writing". I think I can actually write while dreaming. I kid you not! Problem: it doesn't always make itself to paper...which reminds me I had a great thought this morning and forgot to write it down. This is a HUGE problem! So, in regards to this course and the purpose of this quickwrite or my participation in sitting here in this classroom. How did my week(s) go. Aside from enjoying football watching time and plenty of family obligations, I had some moments of true productivity, but not with Belcher. I can't seem to work with Belcher AND be totally productive in my article work. I can't seem to multi-task with the documentation tool (i.e. my calendar) and stay faithful to my writing. I can reflect on my writing time, which I will do here.
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While working on editing my query letter and after talking with Mary I was very productive in working on my abstract, arguments and query. Mind you, none of these are done, but they helped me work on those chunks of my actual article. I found that when I was struggling with tightening up any one of those documents I would go back to my article and work on that argument in the article. Sometimes this would lead me to some reading, or a quote I needed to elaborate on or get rid of. This helped me to see that actually quotes in my paper were a problem. Yes, Belcher did help me see this also. Although, Belcher also gave me a mini shut-down moment thinking about writing a lit review, which sent me off into another world for about 2 days: The world of the lit review genre and what that means for an article. I left that world on purpose and I left it without anything to bring home as evidence I was there outside of a folder of articles that might be reminiscent of a suitcase of travel sized bottles of toiletries.