Sharing the research process

It helps to write. By writing frequently, I am continuing the research process, developing my thinking, forming my ideas, making plans...
I can't over-emphasise the importance of ongoing reading, as part of the research journey. Every time I read a new article or chapter, I think my whole research afresh.
At the weekend, for example, I read an article in which a researcher explained how she worked creatively with her transcripts as malleable products, and re-shaped them into poems that re-told the stories of the participants. The new word clusters re-presented the feelings and experiences evoked in the transcripts.
I would argue that the literature review cannot be accomplished before the research, but must be woven into the research process throughout the period of the research and beyond.