in my hobbit era

The first official draft of the first chapter is done! I finished it, had my beloved mom do a quick reading check and I have sent it to my supervisor. I can now enjoy the rest of the afternoon before dogsitting tonight, and tomorrow a new adventure with the next chapter will begin.

big final reread and then send it and stop thinking about this specific chapter until I get my advisor's response

The rest of of my afternoon has been finally catching up on tmagp, and continuing my reading of Wolf Worm by T. Kingfisher.

I am not sure yet I will get in a second writing session today, as I will be dogsitting in the afternoon. But this morning I got a couple tasks done. I did finish writing a big list with a bunch of information and quotes I want to somehow include in the last part of the chapter I am writing. I then decided to take the rest of my morning thesis time to reread what I have written so far. I had to edit some notes, and I also fixed the general form a bit. What I am left to do now is to create a good structure for this last part of the chapter, and then to write it of course. Ideally I will take one hour of writing time this afternoon to start at least with the structure, but we'll see how things go. The general goal is to finish this chapter next week and to email it to my supervisor. I will try to accomplish that before the middle of next week, so that I will also be able to actively work on the next chapter. Overall I have to say that this week was much better than the last, I feel like I am actually doing something with myself, and things are going much more smoothly than the past week.

I will update during the day to hold myself accountable and to record how the plan is working.

First daily update on how my thesis writing is going. This morning session was slightly less productive since I only wrote a new paragraph (a little less than a page). But I did do a big reread of what I wrote yesterday, fixed up a few sentences and typos and also checked the notes. I also went through the big list I made last week of things I need to include in this chapter, I crossed off everything I have mentioned already, and finally I reorganized the other informations I still have to include in an order that makes sense. So in my afternoon writing session I can just go for it since I already have the order in which to write things in. I imagine I will do a rough draft of that and then clean it up in the next session. Overall these one hour writing sprints seem to work well which is giving me a lot of hope. I will now go for a walk to wind down and I'll be back in the afternoon with an update after my second daily writing session.

Good morning folks, I have a big glass of water, my laptop is on and my notes are everywhere. Today's method to defeat the writer's block is to work one hour straight, just writing no deleating and starting all over again. I will report back in an hour with news on how it works out.

The thesis dis-adventures have been paused for the weekend and will probably be haunting me from tomorrow again. In the meantime I got some reading time, some doggo time, and most importantly I went to my first concert ever! Yes I had to wait to be 27 to physically go to a concert because I do not deal well with crowds and loud noises. But with the perfect combination of earplugs, small festival, and emotional support big brother I went to my first live gig and it was so good! We saw Korpiklaani, a folk metal band we have been listening together for ages and we had so much fun. The festival was so chill and full of people who were genuinely so joyous, it was a great vibe. It also made me realise I am fully in my metalhead/alt person renaissance and I am embracing it so much. A couple of years ago I was struggling with my sense of self and self expression through clothing, which was a huge thing for me as a teen. And I feel like after I have started to come out as non binary to a few people irl I have been slowly finding myself on that side of things again.

I had another existential crisis about writing and ended up wasting an hour doing basically nothing. I have genuinely never felt so stuck with stuff like this, I do not like it one bit. I really hate it here. So what I ended up doing was laying on the floor and then go at a friend's place who was in town for the day. So at least I drowned my feelings of unmotivated guilt with friendship time, which hasn't been that much lately.