Well done Dunni. I hope you're taking a well deserved rest today.

I didn't achieve my last goal yesterday of doing one more analysis because I got into a bit of a sticky spot. So my first goal today, after emailing my sup who is finishing his sabbatical next week, is to work out the bit which I'm stuck on.

Well done Dunni! You can relax and enjoy yourself this weekend after sending your chapters to your supervisors...

I am really starting to struggle. Not helped by the fact that my OH is recovering from surgery a few days ago and wants me to watch a movie with him. I WILL do a draft analysis of one final extract before finishing for the day.

I have now edited the second section (and cut out 500 words because I don't think it was working. Gah.). I am starting to get a bit bored of this now but will plod on and edit the third and final section.

Pink_numbers- your list of goals makes me feel exhausted just reading it. Good luck!

Batfink- I feel your pain re the pulled muscle. I hope it sorts itself out. I've had to put my new deadlift and squat heavy training program on hold because I've had pain in my back the last couple of days (seems to be subsiding though).

I have now achieved my first goal. Next I am going to have a quick shower and think and then edit a second section.

I also have an overall goal of getting the document I'm working on from 3350 to 4000 words.

Sorry PinkNumbers, I'm rubbish with stats so hopefully someone who can help will come along soon....

I achieved my first goal of getting up at 8. Yay.

I was going to bang out 10000 words in 10 days and then spend 2 weeks editing. But I don't think that is going to work because I need time to think. So my first goal is to edit one section that I wrote earlier in the week.

I got my word count up to 2000. This brings my total for the day up to 1600, with about 600 copied and pasted from past work. My brain is now feeling frazzled so I am going to the gym.

My goal for tomorrow is to get up at 8 and start work earlier than I have been doing, as I find working earlier easier than I do working later.

Can I join?

I am hoping to submit in July/August. My funding runs out at the end of September so I have until then really. I am not accepting the possibility that I might go over- My supervisor told me he is a firm believer in Parkinson's law, that the time it takes us to do something is largely determined by how long we have to do it, and I tend to agree. But then again I have only had feedback on one of my chapters so far so I have no idea how much extra time it'll take me to get the rest of my chapters thesis ready so in the back of my mind I'm not sure.

So far I have written two analytic chapters, a chunk of my literature review and I have a deadline for a third chapter at the end of the month. I am not quite panicking but recently realised I really need to get a move on so I have been using PinkNumbers' tactic of writing 1000 words a day which is really working.

I will be checking in on this thread to keep me going over the next few months!

Ugh, I have completely hit a brick wall with this chapter. A change is as good as a break so I am going to move on to my methodology chapter. I have a 1,200 word document and my next goal is to get it up to 1500.

Good luck getting back into it Emaa. It's nice to have a bit of a break!

I hsve written 650 words so far. Some of it is starting to get really sloppy though. I think after lunch rather than trying to bang out more I will start to think more about quality. Rather than thinking about word count my goal is to do a good job of writing one small section.

Morning everyone. It sounds like everyone is doing well, keep it up!

I should have got up earlier to travel onto campus for a data session with my research group but I only got up at 8.45. Damn. I am going to stay put and try for my 1000 words again. So my first goal is 500 by lunch.

i hope that everyone is having a productive day!

I have written 500 words. Yay. This includes rewriting some stuff from yesterday and I also feel like I have a really clear idea of the structure of the chapter now. However this isn't a chapter which I have discussed with my supervisors so I hope it'll be OK. I'm at a weird stage as I won't be working with my current supervisor for much longer as my main sup is finishing his sabbatical this month but he doesn't know the ins and outs of how everything has been going over the last year. Anyway, I'm just getting on with it and having confidence in where I'm going.

My next goal is to write 500 more words before the end of the day.

Morning everyone. My goal today is again to write 1000 words. I really hit a brick wall yesterday afternoon so I finished early and went to the gym but today I am aiming to put in a good day. My first goal is to write 500 words by lunch time.

Well at the moment I have just started writing a chapter and because I've started the writing from scratch its easy to get a lot out. I also have just 4 weeks to draft out the chapter to send to my supervisor, coupled with a sense of competition (a relative of mine is also doing a PhD and started over a year before me but has spent ages faffing around and avoiding PhD work and still has a long way to go. She now has a lecturing job and was being a bit of an arse recently about how much more advanced and mature she is than me. So I have been thinking about how great it would be if I managed to submit before she does. Hey whatever works...).

I have now started to slump a bit. I am 150 words away from my target and feel like I have hit a brick wall with the analysis. My next goal is to plan out the introduction section for the chapter and to get at least 200 words of that written.

I have written 700 words. (up) It is very, very rough however. After lunch I am going to write another 300 and then decide whether to carry on banging stuff out, or to tidy up what I have written so far.

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It sounds to me like the issue isn't the PhD itself but rather that it is some problem of hers. Would she react the same if you had a different hobby? Everyone should have the time to pursue hobbies, to better themselves, etc. As long as its within reason (e.g. you still find time to pull your weight around the house and you make an effort to spend some time together) I don't see what the problem should be. I'd find it hard to deal with someone dictating to me how I should be spending my time.

My OH spends Saturday mornings at guitar class, afternoons at the gym and we spend time together during the evenings. It wouldn't even occur to me to think anything of it. So no, expecting uninterrupted PhD time isn't unreasonable.

I am working on the assumption that you don't have children, though, in which case I guess it would be different.