Originally, I thought there would be a lot online already about my topic, I quickly realized this was not the case. I did, however, find Dahl’s archives on the Official Roald Dahl website–they’ve been interesting to explore. Overall it hasn’t significantly helped or hindered my process.

There are advantages and disadvantages of taking time off from an on-going project. One can lose fresh ideas or come back from a break and see everything from a whole new perspective. Personally, I prefer to keep up a slow momentum, this January break I opted to write all of these blog posts, watch the 1968 film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Dahl wrote the screen play) with my family, and do some more reading.

At this stage in my research I’m very happy with the topic I have chosen, I think the Plath idea was my getting a little over enthusiastic… It’s a bit late for second guessing now, so at this point all I can do is keep up my work and hope it all works out!

Again, not much to add; I have yet to cut or add anything. My research is going as planned;  I am a bit worried about how well it’s going to come together in a paper but I’ll get to that when I start writing.

Thus far there haven’t been many obstacles, challenges, or suprises: I’ve read 13 of Dahl’s children’s books and I’ve just started reading his authorized biography. I’m finding a lot of social satire and commentry, so my gut is to say thus far everything is going well.