Reading dense texts like Boje’s work on critical postmodern narrative research methods is like getting lost inside your mind. If you’re not vigilant about staying focus, you fall into that “What did I just read?” place. It’s a bit like eating rich food when you’re not used to it. If you don’t pace yourself in time and quantity, you’re liable to end up with indigestion/not digested. So I’m taking a break; I’ve been taking them on and off all day and yesterday too, while I’m writing a capstone paper for a course on narrative research tools.
And I’ve been wondering too, how long it should take to do these kinds of papers. Last weekend it felt too long. The 10 page paper I was writing took close to an hour a page. How can that be?