3/24: writing and thinking

I worked on a conference paper this afternoon.  Speakers are limited to 15 minutes, so there isn't much time to set out a complicated idea.  And I had already written an abstract with the skeleton of my argument, so I had thought that the paper-writing would be mostly a matter of fleshing out that skeleton.  On the one hand, that's good because it's pretty straightforward; on the other hand, it's less fun because it's great to work out a new idea while writing.  Though my paper's structure is still largely following the abstract, I managed to come up with some new connections while working today, and that was welcome.