Thursday, 29 November 2012

Grit and Determination

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.  Thank god.  I have finally finished editing the lit review AND got it down to 4000 wds.

I am sure it will come back to me and I dread it.  I wonder if I will ever get it done properly.  But I have reworked it so it makes sense, taken lots of shite out and added other good stuff and talked all the time about how I do like this idea/don't like that idea. 

Am so bored to death of it; if I could I would take some time off now!  But I can't.  I will never get this chapter done today :(  I have about 8 pages left to edit (of 30) which is wonderful, but they need a lot of work and I also have to write 250 words introducing my case study properly, which is grand but needs stats etc that I have to research.  I did have them once, but have lost them somewhere in the two house moves I have done since I started 5 years ago!  It is easy, just will take a couple of hours.

I wonder if Bean will nap tomorrow...  if he does I could work then!  If I had tomorrow, or just half of tomorrow, I could get it finished and so it would be in 'by the end of the week'.

I will keep going.  Keep trying, pushing, grit teeth, get on...

Oh, the full edited manuscript from Sup has arrived.  It is downstairs, unopened.  It will remain unopened until I work on the next chapter - Sunday probably.  I completely dread opening it.  It will be bloody awful.

Any Sup has written on my chapter I am working on that I need a copy-editor!  I agree, I cannot see typos and mistakes in my own work.  But my friend who is a copy-editor said she would do it...  for £1000!  WTF!  That is mates' rates too!  We can't pay that for someone to peruse this begger :(  But what a dream...  would she change it all for me?  she would wouldn't she.  Ahhhhh.  That would be like a lovely hot bath, sending off my typos for someone to change it so it is all nice and perdy and sharp.

x J

2 comments:

Bryallen said...

Jeez, how much is non-mates-rates?? Sounds like you're doing really well! Do you have a plan for what you'll do when you submit?

Numpty said...

ah... submitting... Is there life other than this?!?!?!!

well, I will have NYE, then crochet and watch boxsets, play firefighters with the toddler and plan to move house to the other side of the country! Whereupon I shall crochet some more, give birth and give myself over to ridiculous autobiographies :)

x J