Meetings bloody meetings

Feeling a bit frustrated because I haven't been able to do any writing on my PhD today because of meetings.  This is a novel feeling for me.  I'm convinced that the approach of writing something every day will be a major step forward in terms of productivity.  I'm also interested in what Rowena Murray says about free writing.  It's a valid point that it has to be done for a reasonable period of time if any real change in practice is to be achieved.

Well that was relatively successful.  I now have >4000 words in my draft thesis, admiittedly mostly copied from other documents, but it's a start.  My technique was to use Scrivener with Pomodroido on my phone to keep me focussed.  Not entirely pain-free, but much, much better than procrastination!

The key thing, I think, is to try to write a bit every day.  If I can keep that up I think I'll make good progress.

It's time to turn pro

I was really worried when Mark told me that the time had come to start writing my thesis.  That was a couple of weeks ago.  Since then I've been procrastinating and stressing about it.  I went to the vitae conference at Glasgow uni yesterday, and one of the presenters spoke about "the war of art" by Stephen Pressfield. Brilliant book.  An inspiration.

Time to turn pro!