Urgh. I just found out that I am presenting at a postgrad conference in my department in 2 weeks time. I somehow missed the email telling me I had been accepted! My next goal is to spend until 4 starting getting something together.

I'm glad you had a nice break Batfink. I also spent last night drinking wine and eating curry!

I have now more or less done my first goal, although parts are still sloppy. I'm planning to do a final redraft of the entire thing anyway so I will leave it for now. I'm now going to tackle my introduction section. It is all over the place so I want to get to a stage where I am more sure of what I am going to include etc before I have to leave.

Morning everyone. I have a few hours this morning to write before going onto campus to attend a meeting with my research group (I haven't been for ages so should show my face!). My first goal is to redraft the analysis section which I gave up on yesterday.

I just can't focus on redrafting my analysis for any longer. I have done really well with the stuff I've done so far but have slipped into writing crap so I am going to leave it for today. I have an hour before I have to finish so I am going to read a chapter from an inter library loan which is due back on Friday.

Pink_numbers, I get bored of working on the same thing a lot of the time. I was just thinking this morning actually that I am getting sick of this chapter because I've done little else the last couple of weeks. I usually try to have 2 things on the go at once and then I can divide my time between them. It's hard for me when this isn't possible...

I have now redrafted one section and my concentration is starting to slip (I had about 5 hours sleep which doesn't help). But I must plough on and get a second section redrafted.

Morning all. I hope everyone has a productive day. I'm late sitting down as I have already been to the gym. I am finishing just after 4 to meet my friend before he goes away for a month so I had better get cracking. My first goal is to redraft one analysis section.

I have now sorted out my notes, although I still need to have a root around the cupboard where I keep all of my papers to see if there is anything else lurking but not today.

I am now going to read a book chapter before calling it a day.

I have now upped my word count by 1,300 (albeit some of this was copied and pasted) and feel like I have a better handle on things.

I am now starting to get sick of the chapter though so I am going to spend the rest of the day organising the notes from the reading I have done over the last couple of months. This is something which I used to do weekly but I have been terrible recently and it started getting so bad that I kept putting it off.

try not to get too stressed Pink_Numbers. We all have these days from time to time and everything probably seems worse than it is if you're still feeling ill...

I have now written 600 words. But I am starting to doubt myself and feel like my analysis is a bit chaotic. I think this is part of the process which I need to learn to embrace but I hate feeling like this. My goal for the afternoon is to edit and to get to a place where I feel like I have more of a handle on things.

Morning everyone.

My goal for today is to write 750 words and get the document I'm working on up to 5000 (I am starting to slow down now that I am editing and rewriting). So, 300 by lunch.

I have now reorganised my analysis. For some reason this seemed like a huge daunting task.

My goal for the rest of the day is to pad it out, include a couple more extracts and up my word count by at least 500.

I spent the last couple of hours realising that my analysis wasn't working because the structure of the whole thing needs revising. I now have a handle on how I think I should reorganise things, so that is my next goal.

I'd say that the end of the day is fine. Official deadlines for various things (job applications, abstract submissions, etc) tend to be at the end of the day so I'd go with that. Mind you, my supervisors have been taking months to get comments back to me and the deadlines are only for my own benefit... But I wouldn't worry.

When are you planning to submit Pink_numbers? I'm aiming for July-September and I think we're at a similar stage with our drafts with you just a little bit ahead of me.

Introduction- Not started
Lit- about 1/3 of it drafted.
Methodology- A small chunk drafted but barely scratched the surface
Data chapter 1- Complete.
Data chapter 2- Drafted and with sups
Data chapter 3- Will be drafted at the end of the month
Data chapter 4- Not started
Conclusions- Not started

Wow, writing all that down made me feel that I have actually got quite a bit of it drafted (or will have by the end of the month). Reading about Dunni's progress is spurring me on, I just want to have the whole damn thing drafted!