Graham tells it. If you haven't read his advice posts and are doing a humanities Ph.D., go there now and search for them. Gold.
This one is about how to do a long-term project like a big essay or a book. You have to do a sort of cloud or blob (this is how I think of it), then fill it in. Whitehead, says Graham, got this right.
The Ecological Thought started as three pages of okay-ish prose, with a fairly tight argument. Then I just expanded and expanded. Each sentence turned into a few paragraphs. In three weeks the book was done.
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