Quote From MZB25:

I am almost there people. I have defended the proposal, and collected most of my data. I have one more round of interviews to do, but data analysis is making me very unmotivated to even open up the word doc file. I do everything else other than think about how to approach the data.

I am doing a narrative analysis of four interviews and I am just clueless as to where to begin. I really like grounded theory because it is clear cut on what to do, but it is much more difficult to make sense of large chunks of narrative treads/ stories, especially when people tell stories within stories or half stories with no conclusion etc. There are no "self contained" stories like in the fairytales... or what research methodology texts suggest.

I sort of see the finish line, but I know I have a loooong way to go. I see hours, days, and weeks fly by and no work done. I go shopping, I cook more, I watch TV.. everything but open the word file!

Some suggestions please on conquering the fear of approaching the data...