Well, I have a bit of a skeleton going now thanks to a few meetings with my supervisor and emails summarising the overall logic flow.

Where I'm getting a bit stuck is going through the literature to actually understand what the hell I'm talking about. I find myself getting lost in the weeds without being able to understand what I need to focus on at this stage of the project. The specific area of research is an area I didn't have much exposure to in my coursework so it's kind of on me, choosing to jump into the deep end... but I feel like I've made some progress by getting through a couple of particularly dense papers and starting to how everything is connected, adding notes to the skeleton as I digest the papers.

I like need 3 more entire days to just smash through this but I frustratingly have to work to earn money and all that shit, and it's mostly screen based work... I'm going to see how much I can get away with phoning it in at work this week so I don't lose my study momentum