Past the Point of No Return
I've got 200 pages I thought I'd never have! I am no longer worried about length....just girth. Ha ha...no...now I am just concerned about getting the whole thing to kind of hang together. I've got two chapters to finish, one to fix, and one to revise, plus a conclusion to write. Supposedly all by the 12th. Yikes! Unfortunately this is also the busiest time of year for my TAships and all sorts of other things have been haywire. I've been surviving on TV dinners gulped down while reading. My eyes feel like they are going to pop at the end of the day. But I must keep going! I am so close to the finish line, I can feel it for the first time ever. I realize now I really, truly never believed I would come this far.
posted by Porkorama at 2:05 AM
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turn it in as is and ask the committee what needs to be fixed to pass, then only do that. stop this 'i need 2 more chapters' nonsense, what you need is to be done. you can write more chapters when you make it a book.
No, really...it's not the "I need two more chapters" nonsense...I've already cut out over half the chapters I was going to write! Right now I just have to finish the ones I have, basically so they don't end mid-sentence and make some sort of sense.
And I don't think I'm going to make this a book. Too much suffering involved. Not my cup of tea.
yippeeee - the finish line is in sight.
I just discovered you via an email from PhD Explosion who said that she has taped a print out of one of your posts to the wall next to her computer. I've emailed back to ask 'which post'. In the meantime, I'm enjoying what I've read so far.
Go for it!
WOOHOOO!!!!! 200 pages! What a Christmas present to yourself. Well done.
By the way, the post Academic Coach is talking about is the Words of Wisdom post. Thanks for sharing that, it's just what I need to read right now.
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