Hi Emmaki and Batfink, hope you're both having good days!

I have reached 6,000 words! HURRAY! (I hasten to add that I don't know if any of them are any good but at least there's something to work with). I'm quite pleased with myself today because the day started quite badly with some bad news and I really didn't think I was going to be able to get on with anything so (up)

Safe journey Emmaki, and it's mild today in the UK (I do live about 100+ miles from London) but I've heard that it's going to get much colder over the next couple of days so pack warm clothing! And Batfink, hope your work has gone well today!

Thanks for the advice Lindalou and well done on your progress!!!!!!!!!!!!!


GOOD PROGRESS-NEWS!!!!! That's what we all want to read!!!!!!!!!!!

So, I finished both of my PhD goals for today.

Now I have to start packing.......

Welcome back Emmaki, hope the journey goes well - and yes, I agree, I'm a similar distance from London and it's definitely getting colder tonight!

And that sound slike great progress Lindalou, congrats on that!

I've made good progress today too. Achieved all my goals, including doing some data analysis I didn't think I'd have time for. And now I'm going to microwave some dinner, have a glass of wine and relax!

Hello all,

Sitting down to work again now after doing admin this morning, just getting on from where I left off yesterday really. Fingers crossed I have another productive day like yesterday again, but it's Friday and I've got that Friday feeling!

Hope you had a safe journey back Emmaki, and you had a relaxing evening Batfink, I succumbed and had a glass of wine last night with a Chinese takeaway (so much for pre-wedding diet but I'm back on the diet train today!)

See you all later, have a good day!

Hello everyone.

I slept in after a relaxing evening, must have needed it, so am only just starting work now. Oh well. Today I'm going through my notes on the statistical analysis techniques that I need to be familiar with before next week's stats training course. So today should be useful but hopefully not arduous, and then I'm meeting mates in the pub tonight. Perfect Friday!

Good luck with all today's targets!

Hello,

Ah don't worry Batfink, I've not been doing massively well in terms of getting up this week! I made a new year's resolution that I was going to get up at the same time of my fiance but as he gets up whilst it's still dark (how?!) that hasn't really happened... :$

Anyway, I've done ok in terms of writing today but I am worried that when I come back to it next week I'm going to think it's rubbish and be all like :-(

But hey ho! Hope everyone's having a good day and has a great weekend, I'm still crossing my fingers for snow!

Hi, hope everyone is doing ok today. I'm still here, ploughing through the chapter. I'm almost two thirds of the way through this one thankfully, I have 1 more to write from scratch, and 1 to carry on with after getting half way through and giving up! I have until the end of March to do these, then I will have two more to write (1 I have a poor draft for, and 1 is the conclusion so that'll be from scratch too) between April and the end of June. So I'm getting there, although progress seems slow and I feel like I'm pushing a big rock up a very steep slope most days!

Onwards and upwards though!

Hi Linda,

I've been lurking on the forum all day, but couldn't bring myself to post on here because I have literally procrastinated since 7:30am. Since 11am, I have written 151 words, and oh my god even that was painful. So I've resigned myself to the fact that it's a completely unproductive day. Anyway, I'm going to set myself a tiny weeny goal, then go to the gym and hopefully be more productive tomorrow!

Goal- write first section of meth

I did manage my goal yesterday, and wrote around 500 words; not at all great, but small progress.

I'm finding it really difficult getting back into writing, so I'm going with mytomatoes today, and trying not to think about it all too much. My goals are going to be all about writing sections. So;

Goal 1- write section 3.2.1
Goal 2- write section 3.2.2

I'll let you all know how I get on (up)

Button, I averaged about 500 words a day during write up (I'm very considered in what I write but can't write at speed) and the words mounted up. It's quality over quantity and so don't be too hard on yourself. I also worked to a plan, a plan with flexibility in it but a plan. You'll get there!

Thanks Delta, that's really encouraging to hear. I've got quite a big plan, but have been jiggling bits around as I write. I'm not one of those people who can just sit and write, I need a plan!

Good morning Button and anyone else who is around today, I've had a head cold simmering for a few days but today is the day it has fully announced itself, so I'm feeling major (turkey) today!

The only reason I'm writing so much at the moment is that I'm doing brain dump, just getting ideas out of my head and onto the page. It's not very structured at all... I'll go back and refine it once I have the bare bones on the page. As for planning, I kind of know what I want to say, but I need to have my ideas down on paper before I can really start to formulate them into an argument. It's different strokes for different folks, everyone writes differently!

I had a look at the Thesis Whisperer link that Lughna recommended in your other post, and it's really helpful... to be honest it kind of covers most of the same info as Bolker's Write your Thesis in 15 minutes a day.

Anyway, my sole goal today is to try and write at least 500 words myself. I'm going through policy documents (and trying to see through the propoganda) and do some documentary analysis whilst writing about it! So here goes....

Hope you can work through feeling a bit pants Linda! I think I'm back into the writing thing; I was feeling anxious because of not writing 'proper' work for so long.

I've written 996 words of fairly good work, so I'm happy. I've done my first two goals, so further goals;

Goal 3- write section 3.2.3
Goal 4- 3.2.4
Goal 5- 3.2.5
Goal 6- 3.2.6
Goal 7- 3.2.7

I'm not sure whether I'll actually get through all that today (I can only really write well in the morning), but I'll see how it goes! Good luck all!

(up) well done Button! It's a great feeling isn't it! Good on you! I'm personally having a really rubbish day today so I'll be glad to get some, any, words out today before I retreat into daytime TV and feeling sorry for myself until my other half gets home!

Linda it's really rubbish being ill, don't beat yourself up if you don't manage much writing.

I've actually done pretty well, did 6 tomatoes by 1pm (not great but fine), then had a 2 hour break for lunch and puppy duties (she is a maniac and won't sleep this afternoon unless I tire her out).

Just did a word count and I've written 2141 words today woohoo! I've also done all my goals except the last one, which I'll do now. So:

Goal 7- write section 3.2.7
Goal 8- read and edit everything written
Goal 9- start next section of writing, so I can get cracking with it first thing tomorrow

Then that'll be me done for the day!