Today saw the completion of my literature review and my survey overview. I continue to worry a lot about going over my word count, but I only have three sections left, so we will see how they go. Less to say about my writing today, as it mostly involved me going through all of the literature I had gathered, pulling quotes, and writing, as well as adding to my reference sheet. I wrote more today than I did yesterday, about 3.5k, which was quite nice. I'm hoping to be done my rough draft by the end of next week, if not earlier, which I think it quite reasonable, especially if I keep going at my current rate (I've already written over a third of my dissertation, at least as far as the word count goes). I still need to write my methodology, which I think I will be doing next, my survey results analysis, and my conclusion.
Below the cut today you will find a subsection of my literature review - the history of queer YA. I've also included my section on terminology, which covers why I've chosen to use the term 'queer' throughout my essay, because if I'm gonna keep showing y'all excerpts of my rough draft, we're gonna need to cover that. I feel the need to once again emphasize that this is also the very first draft.
