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Going through my supervisor's comments on my first chapter draft reminds me how much I hate editing.

Submitted my first drafts of chapters 3 and 4. Hope to get a draft of the introduction to my supervisor within two weeks, then will work on edits based on his feedback to make a complete second draft, which I need to send to him by early August before he goes on holiday.

Alright, alright. Got the first draft of chapter 3 (longest chapter so far at around 4,500 words!) and am making good progress with chapter 4. Being forced to hang out in a local (air conditioned) cafe every day after work because of the heatwave has really boosted my productivity.

Unbelievably I got 78% for my final essay. Cannot comprehend how I got away with that, but I'm very happy because that really takes the heat off the diss. I'm fairly certain I can get a Distinction overall now.

Sent my first drafts of chapters 1 and 2 to my supervisor! I'm pretty pleased with them (so far), but I expect I'll be doing substantive edits after the feedback. I'm glad I've got these 2 chapters drafted already, as that gives me more time to work on the last 2 chapters which I think will take a bit more work.

It's only been four days since I started drafting the first chapter of the diss and I'm almost done with the chapter already! Currently at just under 3k words. I knew this chapter and chapter 2 were going to be the easiest to write and I want to get them drafted as soon as possible because I need to do more research for the other two chapters. I was meant to submit my first draft chapter mid-June, but I think I could submit two draft chapters then.

The essay is done and submitted. Only happy with the first half of it, but whatever! Now the only thing left is the diss and I'm scheduled to send the first draft chapter to my supervisor some time in the second week of June. I have a video call with them on the 1st June for a progress update, so we'll see where I am then. Today I had an idea about how to structure the diss, so I'm gonna run with that for now. As the word count is 14,000, I'm thinking I should make each main chapter ~3,000 words, leaving 2k words for the intro and conclusion.

Weekly word count check in: 3,971! Writing these last 1k words has been excruciating. Truly. I don’t even want to read what I’ve written because I’m so scared of how bad it is. I think whoever marks this essay will be able to pinpoint the exact moment I lost all motivation for it. But it’s almost over. All I have to do is write a short conclusion and it’s done. Thank god it’s almost over, but once this essay is done that means I’m gonna have to commit to the diss from now on and that’s a terrifying prospect.

Weekly word count check in: currently at 3,200 words. The home stretch should be easier, but I'm struggling with the last part the most. The last 200 words I'm reserving for the conclusion, but I still need to find 600 words in this last section.

It’s been a week since I started writing the essay and I’m at 2,100 words, so well ahead of where I wanted to be! I’m feeling pretty good about what I’ve written so far and I’m almost done with the first section. I think the next section might be slightly harder to writer, but I’m not too worried about it.

I started the essay on Monday and it's now Wednesday and I've already written 1k words, so it's going much better than I expected! I thought it would be super hard to get started on it, but I got in the flow almost from the start and it's been nice to see it come together.

I seem have to become mildly obsessed with this academic (not naming names) who's an expert in ancient Greek warfare. One of his videos came up on my YouTube and I've kinda gone down the rabbit hole...

Sent the third draft of my PhD proposal to my potential supervisor yesterday. Still have the urge to chicken out, but I just gotta forge ahead. Uni is back tomorrow (12th) so I'm not expecting him to reply for a few weeks.

Guess who put their back out 10 mins into their gym workout and now can barely move.