The AE moves along slowly and lumbers in the direction of actually starting. I feel a huge jumble of emotions about it. I regularly panic and decide that it is all too nebulous, and then loose the thread of what I'm doing. Well - that's what panic does, isn't it? Freezes the higher order thinking skills.
That fuzziness is what happens with emergent research though especially at the start. I need to be relaxed with the ambiguities. Have trust that I'm following a sound AE methodology and begin to flow with it. There are the aspects that need to be kept rigid, the methodolgy, the timescales (to an extent), and there are the things that need to be allowed to emerge. Ok that feels better. Now to write a brief questionnaire.......