Well, after feeling insanely sleepy for a good few hours there, at some point something kicked in and I have powered through to 10pm and my methods section is pretty much 95% complete!!!
The intro is about 75% after yesterday’s efforts - held back by the very late-stage discovery of a key paper that throws a whole bunch of things out and I have to incorporate into the intro and discussion. So I’m going to have to prioritise reading that, but…
…my discussion section is a total shambles.
shambles rambles
I really have neglected it completely and it’s just a bunch of half-finished sentences and disorganised dot points. Really, this is the important bit of the paper so I shouldn’t be rushing it, but at this point I’m going to have to summarise a lot of it as:
Wow, the results of A, B and C were really obvious! just like X and Y said!
But these things weren’t so great, possibly because of the phenomenon described in Z
Still you should totally use C because A and B alone aren’t enough
Also here is a scenario model which proves my point
But also it has 35930940249 assumptions lol
Future research could address all of that, but anyway, at least this thing gets the ball rolling
kthxbai
I think my game plan for tomorrow is to seriously flesh out the discussion section, references be damned, and get the main points/flow of discussion correct. Because I simply won’t have anything even remotely submittable without that. THEN I can get into that stupid paper and figure out how much I need to wedge in and try and finish that remaining 25% of the intro…
Sigh. I was hoping I’d be done by end of Monday but I’ll have to accept spending my birthday still working on this stupid thing. If I can finish by the end of Tuesday at least then I can luxuriate!
Well, after feeling insanely sleepy for a good few hours there, at some point something kicked in and I have powered through to 10pm and my methods section is pretty much 95% complete!!!
The intro is about 75% after yesterday’s efforts - held back by the very late-stage discovery of a key paper that throws a whole bunch of things out and I have to incorporate into the intro and discussion. So I’m going to have to prioritise reading that, but…
…my discussion section is a total shambles.
shambles rambles
I really have neglected it completely and it’s just a bunch of half-finished sentences and disorganised dot points. Really, this is the important bit of the paper so I shouldn’t be rushing it, but at this point I’m going to have to summarise a lot of it as:
I think my game plan for tomorrow is to seriously flesh out the discussion section, references be damned, and get the main points/flow of discussion correct. Because I simply won’t have anything even remotely submittable without that. THEN I can get into that stupid paper and figure out how much I need to wedge in and try and finish that remaining 25% of the intro…
Sigh. I was hoping I’d be done by end of Monday but I’ll have to accept spending my birthday still working on this stupid thing. If I can finish by the end of Tuesday at least then I can luxuriate!
I am just like 😐 at your analysis of how you work and of your work.
pretty awesome
I think this is the key, yes? To get into a flow state.