MyDissWriMo went well: I wrote 40,000 words of thesis. That's not the whole thing, however. In the next two weeks, I need to revise the three chapters that I wrote and add an intro and conclusion. And then I need to write my defense talk. My dreams of emerging somewhat from my thesis cocoon after May are not to be. But after I defend at the ( Read more... )

Today I finished my second substantive chapter out of three that I need to write for my thesis, and met with my advisor about writing the third. I am on schedule to finish up the majority of my thesis this month, then clean it up and submit it in time to defend June 29. It's not guaranteed, but it's looking good. I can't believe how much I've ( Read more... )

I'm supposed to be off the internet for the month of May. Because I'm supposed to be writing my dissertation. Mostly, both those things are going well -- I just hit the halfway mark in my anticipated word count for my thesis (a bit ahead of schedule). Writing is difficult, but progressing. I am feeling more hopeful that I might still be able to ( Read more... )

So I finally sorted out the conference paper that was giving me vast headaches (though I'm still here at the office tweaking a few figures before the midnight deadline, of course). But that's one thing down ( Read more... )