Alan
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Year 5 of my PhD in Sociology. My advisor wants a full draft of my thesis "by the end of the semester." I've been staring at the same three paragraphs for two weeks.
My data analysis is done, my literature review is a mess of disconnected files, and my will to live is directly correlated with my coffee intake. So, I'm trying a new, desperate strategy: The Wall of Text. I'm just writing. No editing, no formatting, no looking back at citations.
I'm just vomiting every thought I've ever had about my research onto the page, in one massive, 50-page, grammatically horrific document. It's ugly. It's chaotic. It has run-on sentences that span half a page. But for the first time in weeks, the page count is going up.
The plan is to let this beast sit for a day, then go in with the red pen of destruction and try to carve an actual dissertation out of it. Wish me luck, I'm going back into the void.
My data analysis is done, my literature review is a mess of disconnected files, and my will to live is directly correlated with my coffee intake. So, I'm trying a new, desperate strategy: The Wall of Text. I'm just writing. No editing, no formatting, no looking back at citations.
I'm just vomiting every thought I've ever had about my research onto the page, in one massive, 50-page, grammatically horrific document. It's ugly. It's chaotic. It has run-on sentences that span half a page. But for the first time in weeks, the page count is going up.
The plan is to let this beast sit for a day, then go in with the red pen of destruction and try to carve an actual dissertation out of it. Wish me luck, I'm going back into the void.
