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I always liked to watch this kind of thing with my dad when I was little, but haven't really since I left home. It's not the sort of thing my boyfriend likes to watch!

billy is wondering if she will manage to get a draft of this paper to her supervisors for tuesday!?! Well I won't if i keep procrastinating on here!

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Thanks for all your help guys! Panic over, my sups are being a bit more reasonable now, and am hoping to get at least one paper finished!

Am going to look at some books on writing and see if i can get me on a writing a paper course!

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Me too, I wish I hadn't given him a star now...mods can i take it back!?!

Yes I'd like to see the fishy named after me!!

Right...will facebook him and let him know!!

Ohhh...can I have a fish named after me?...preferably a silly looking one! Or one that does silly things!

I started my PhD about a year ago, and have been writing a paper since then. It has had several reincarnations and data sets, and I am probably on about the 15th draft. Recently, I have just started writing another paper which will be published in an academic 'magazine' for want of a better word (i.e. not peer reviewed) which has to be submitted at the end of september. The problem is that I am expected to write these papers, come up with the ideas, do the analysis...which is fine. I submit a draft to both my supervisors...who then give contradicting advice. My main superisor wants me to include more complicated statistics and theory, the other wants me to simplify the paper and make it more 'interesting'!

I am absolutely crap at writing, completely dire. It is really starting to get to me that I am so bad at writing papers...these papers take me so long to draft and don't seem to be coming to anything, also there not really related to my PhD in a very strong way. I feel like I'm wasting valuable time that i could do with using on my PhD. I am behind on my lit review and have a lot of work to make up in time for my upgrade.

I just feel like bursting into tears right here in my office. I don't know if i want to continue with this phd it is making me so unhappy. I don't know what to do!