Note to self: no days off. NaTheWriMo November 2010 Day: 7 Word count: 2,350 Transcription word count: 10,250 Blog entries: 8
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NaTheWriMo Day 5: Building gazebos
Of course, the no. 1 procrastinatory exercise is to do what I’m doing atm with this blog: telling myself (and you lot in the process) how I’m doing and what I’m doing and how it’s all worthwhile and relevant – instead of Just Working On My Thesis. One of the things I keep telling myself […]
NaTheWriMo Day 4
Bleh. NaTheWriMo November 2010 Day: 4 Word count: 510 Transcription word count: 8,300 Blog entries: 5
NaTheWriMo Day 3
Spent the day tweaking things, which is always annoying, time-consuming, not highly productive in terms of increasing the word count, but ultimately necessary. Feeling slightly frustrated but still relatively okay. Downloaded a couple recent(ish) British edition PhD theses for comparison, which made me feel better. NaTheWriMo November 2010 Day: 3 Word count: […]
NaTheWriMo Day 2
Transcribing more stuff doesn’t really count, but the figure’s included in order to spur me to top it with Real Text. Anyway, slow start, but working on it. NaTheWriMo November 2010 Day: 2 Word count: 400 Transcription word count: 2,850 Blog entries: 3
National Thesis Writing Month
This month, I accept and attempt the challenge of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) – or rather, since it ain’t fiction I’m writing (sic), this is NaTheWriMo. Bit of a mad venture, really, but, dammit, words ain’t forthcoming unless ya writes ’em. So, in a nutshell: 50,000 words in 30 days Wish me luck… […]
On tangentials (& pro-crastination)
One of my worse – or better, depending on your viewpoint – features is my tendency to run off on tangents. I’m not sure why this happens, unless it’s just that I find following paths to see where they end more interesting than continuing along a set course to a defined destination. This is, in […]
type, type, type
Really just links this time: this one relates to my earlier post on the value of the arts. Crisis of the humanities indeed – I suppose one should really come up with arguments for why the arts are important, if nothing else then for funding applications.. And on the topic of why are we here […]