Keep on keepin' on

2 hours writing, page count = 190

Not much to report today, continued working on Chapter 1. Sometimes when I'm getting nowhere at the computer, I take a break and write out the particular question I'm stuck on longhand. That was helpful today in figuring out what exactly about La Violencia I'm saying security-force configurations can explain: intensity, duration, scope? Definitely the last two, maybe the first. But the exercise of writing on a piece of paper helps, the arranging of the words not in lines like on a computer, but all over the page as needed, is helpful. I read an interesting article recently about embodied cognition, the notion that instead of treating the brain like a computer floating in a vacuum, we should think of it as an organic thing embedded in a larger organic system, the body. So maybe movements of the body are connected to "movements" in your brain - like gesturing when you're trying to work out a problem. Anyway, occasionally writing longhand is helpful in that way for me, especially with issues that involve a lot of variables and relationships.