I am stuck. Stuck. Stuck. Stuck.I know what I want to say in this chapter, but I just can't seem to get it arranged right. Too many things struggle for supremacy and all of them seem to be the first idea I should introduce.
But of course they can't all be first.
Short of eenie-meenie-minie-mo, how does one choose?!
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I had exactly this problem when writing my master's thesis; I had five important concepts to introduce, and each of them was dependent on several of the others. That made it unavoidable that I would have to refer forward in my text to something I hadn't explained yet, which I hated. The solution I went with was writing each section independently, as though the other thoughts were already known to the reader. Then I organized those thoughts into the most logical seeming order, and wrote an introduction that very briefly introduced each idea. And then I re-wrote each of the sections to flow nicely from the introduction.
Barring something like that, eenie-meenie-meinie-mo seems like a reasonable option.
It's always so nice to know you're not alone!
I actually ended up doing something similar to what you did. Not really eenie-meenie-minee-mo. More like a shell game, where even I didn't know which one the ball was hidden under (i.e. which one should come first). I just kept shuffling and shuffling till they seemed to come make sense!
Then again, perhaps they just made sense 'cause I was tired of shuffling!
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