Minor Changes Bring Significant Improvement
I have developed a plan of attack for writing the literature review for my dissertation. It has worked for me and the process. I write a little each day over two weeks, submit, and then begin writing the next submission. The same pattern, so it is ready when I receive it back for revision and adding the following submission for three articles. The structure is the same as I am reviewing the 8 essential elements of a clinical trial. I have followed it in a logistic, longitudinal order, one article at a time.
Today, I went at it a little differently for the following three articles. I broke the longitudinal order and repeated the same elements in the following three articles, with paragraphs 1 and 4 for each clinical trial. Wouldn’t you know it, I completed twice the writing in one day. Bam, just a slight change, and it was like I had engineered my own factory assembly line of writing—mass production of writing words for my literature review. Paragraph one and two, repeat paragraph one and two, repeat, paragraph one and two. . . Bam, half the work completed for my next submission in a day. Another caveat, it did not feel like I had spent 12 hours pouring over pages, writing statistics, and missing out. I got out of the house and had some quality time with Rick.
The short and sweet of it today was a minor tweak and a slight change that increased my productivity by double and reduced a week's work to one day.
