Not Much Progress

I seem to be scuffling about a lot and the moment and not producing very much written stuff. This is starting to worry me a bit as it's less than a month until my next supervisory meeting and I haven't actually added to my word count at all in about six weeks! In my defence, I think I'm approaching it from the 'read first then write' angle, rather than the 'write on the hoof' one. I'm hoping to read and inwardly digest Albert Schweizer's Mysticism of Paul The Apostle and then weave some ideas into my work. It's a fascinating book. one of those that when you read it you think 'Ah! I can see how that works!' It is, however, an old work so I'll have to read up on his critics to get some balance into my arguments.
The most tricky thing about doctoral study is to get away from the 5000 word mindset - that is, imagine that I can read, sum up and dispose of an argument in a short space of time. The PhD timescale is so much longer and the thesis so much more complex and lengthy that it really does have to be approached one step at a time, working through the texts and not trying to have a result in mind before you've done the analysis: let the theory emerge from the evidence, not force the evidence to fit a preconceived notion! Very tricky!