So I went through my word count last night and somehow I seem to STILL have only 71000 words...
AAARRRRRGGG! however much I write, a few thou here, a few more thou there, I ONLY get to 71000 words! Oh to break that barrier. Oh to get to 78000...
So I have half an hour now to start copy and psting chunks from old chapters into my new ones. Today is a nice, chilled day. Lots of coffee breaks, a hosp appt, maybe a sausage roll for lunch and lots of copy and pasting this aft. No horrible hardcore editing/re-writing/re-structuring today. I hope to copy and paste in about 5000 words though ideally i would find about 7000. I don't think I will! I do need to go through my empirical chapters again though and ground in the analysis in my research and the lit review; I haven't done that yet, this will probably add a thousand or so more words. I won't have time to do that today though.
I hope DB has tomorrow off; that will be another nose to the grindstone day, writing the intro (well, editing and adding bits). Then I only have the conclusion to do, though as another PhDer said, it might be best to laeve the concl apart from very rough until I have had some feedback about the thesis and go ahead for my arguments?! Or is that me being lazy?! Maybe a bit of both but it does make sense. Can't bear the idea of working hard on another lit review/discussion/methodology style chapter that *doesn't need to be written/is written wrong*.
Anyway, better get on. Am quite excited! By the end of today I hope to have an idea of my word count and have the main body of the thesis complete. Must be ruthless, add what I ened and not be afraid to mess with the edited loveliness I have created over the past few days!
x J
AAARRRRRGGG! however much I write, a few thou here, a few more thou there, I ONLY get to 71000 words! Oh to break that barrier. Oh to get to 78000...
So I have half an hour now to start copy and psting chunks from old chapters into my new ones. Today is a nice, chilled day. Lots of coffee breaks, a hosp appt, maybe a sausage roll for lunch and lots of copy and pasting this aft. No horrible hardcore editing/re-writing/re-structuring today. I hope to copy and paste in about 5000 words though ideally i would find about 7000. I don't think I will! I do need to go through my empirical chapters again though and ground in the analysis in my research and the lit review; I haven't done that yet, this will probably add a thousand or so more words. I won't have time to do that today though.
I hope DB has tomorrow off; that will be another nose to the grindstone day, writing the intro (well, editing and adding bits). Then I only have the conclusion to do, though as another PhDer said, it might be best to laeve the concl apart from very rough until I have had some feedback about the thesis and go ahead for my arguments?! Or is that me being lazy?! Maybe a bit of both but it does make sense. Can't bear the idea of working hard on another lit review/discussion/methodology style chapter that *doesn't need to be written/is written wrong*.
Anyway, better get on. Am quite excited! By the end of today I hope to have an idea of my word count and have the main body of the thesis complete. Must be ruthless, add what I ened and not be afraid to mess with the edited loveliness I have created over the past few days!
x J
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