Quantity, Not Quality

I'm here at the coffee shop with Deb on Labor Day, on a dissertation date. Deb is reading phenomenology; I am blogging and doing word counts, having given up on Lukács's Theory of the Novel fifteen minutes ago. I am supposed to be at 43,000 words by this week, according to the Big Schedule for Getting 60,000 Words Written by December 31, and am currently at 42,380. I'm attempting to draft the introduction, bringing in the heavy hitters of theory like Lukács. The idea is that this will help me go back and revise each chapter, bringing them into line with my overall argument—since in the process of writing the intro, I hope to arrive at said argument.