Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Dissertation-to-book proposal (draft) complete

Done, done, done! I had written to Tasse Plein last week to elicit his long overdue (but promised) commentary on my dissertation. His remark at the time, after signing off on it, was that he'd have some suggestions for revision should I ever wish to publish it. In that email, I wrote: "If you have specific comments, requests, cautions, or what have you, now would be the time to articulate them." His response was to request a look at my proposal. I sent it to him this morning.

Now, what to do? I've got cleaning, unpacking, and organizing. I want to do some more reading about literary agents for my more commercial book projects. I've got a backlog of articles to read for my longitudinal project, and I've got to start recruiting volunteers for that and gathering data.

In all, I'm feeling good about my work again, motivated, dedicated.

4 comments:

L said...

I'm glad you're feeling motivated.

I'm all caught up with your blog now, at least as far as Sept. and Oct. are concerned (I still have to check the end of August since I was traveling then).

jo(e) said...

Hurray!

Leslie M-B said...

Yay! This is one of my current goals, too. You're an inspiration.

Anonymous said...

Yea! I'm glad you're feeling better about work. A little motivation goes along way. Well done on getting the proposal draft done!