Dissertation fail you will, if being stupid you do not stop.

[clo_again]

Its 9:14am and already I'm over an hour behind my schedule. How depressing is that? I'm never planning to start work at 8am again, ever. Especially not on five and a half hours sleep.

Possibly it's the sleep thing or possibly I've just lost it but everytime I quote Aristotle, I want to write it in Yoda!speak. "Writing about one man does not for a unity of plot make mmmmmmmm?"

It's exceedingly distracting. Especially since it's only the first line.

edit: Discovering the Hot Fuzz site has millions of clips and behind-the-scenes video blogs up? Yeah. Not conducive to work at all. (Jesus, I even built two hours flexiblity into my schedule... and it's not even 10:30am and I'm two hours behind already. So. Useless.)

edit: Word count of current section: 427
Overall word count: 1,603
Number of Joss Whedon-related references so far: 1 (Buffy).
Boredom levels (scale of 1-10): 5

Y'all are being very quiet lately. I will poke you indiscriminately until you all say something. *pokes flist*

edit the secondthird: Word count of current section: 498.

It amuses me greatly that I'm writing about heroes while listening to Poets of the Fall... singing about heroes. Is there a hero somewhere, someone who appears and saves the day, someone who holds out a hand and turns back time. It's so appropriate I'm going to see if I can quote it.

edit the third fourth: 844 words. This is utterly, utterly depressing given that I was meant to be on 2,500 by this time. Starting to suspect I've heavily overestimated my own typing and concentration abilities.

I have another hour that I built into my schedule before I start running over into planning time for the next section. Over 2,000 words in an hour. Yeah. Right. x_x

Focus. For godssake.

edit the... oh bugger this: Current word count: 967
Overall word count: 2,152. Passed 2,000 words, yay! Only 7,900ish left to go!

Think I've wandered off topic a little for a few hundred words. Nevermind; there's 10,000 overall. No one'll notice. *touch wood*

edit the something: Current word count: 1,101. Yay! Though I'm literally just starting the analysis now and I'm beginning to think I'm rambling too much in the introduction to the section. But it needs explaining, because it's complicated and it's not stuff the tutor will know unless they've read around a lot on the topic. So I don't know. Maybe I'll call L and ask how she's done hers, though I know we've got different structures.

edit the billionth: Oh this section is going to be too long. Each individual application of a Hero's Journey stage was, at most, meant to be limited to 250 words... and applying the first one to *just* The Odyssey has taken that much.

Yeah. This section may end up longer. Or maybe I'll end up having to cut the intro down. A *lot*.

Overall word count: 2, 698 words. Aiming to hit 3,000 within the next hour. Then I'll only have 4,000 to do by midnight to hit my initial target of 7,000 words for today. Yeah. Right.

edit the panicked: Oh god, I'm just plot summarising. That's all. The last 200 words are just plot summary. God. This will not do. Which means I have to delete them and go back. ;_; Oh for...

Comments

[liathe.livejournal.com]

I've been wondering what to say to your dissertation woes after reading all your entries on the topic. I don't think there's anything I really *can* say ... except that I wish the Nintento-DS-powered-Ouendan cheerleaders really did pop up and help motivate people to do difficult things (like getting people through their dissertations - and helping office workers beat up giant blue mice from space who are invading Tokyo).

How is the word count coming now?

I think there is woe a'plenty among our yeargroup at the moment. My housemate has her own set of dissertation woes, and I still have to actually *write* the majority of my CREW 303 portfolio since I was so abominably useless at writing anything this year. Then there's just the small task of editing it all and writing three critiques of other people's work and a self-critique ...

Aaanyway. I will leave it here before this comment gets over-over-long. I hope the writing goes well!! :D

"Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan!!"

[clo.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm not really expecting people to say much, except possibly to whack me on the head with heavy objects for being crazy enough to leave it to the last minute. ^_^ I just like to whine about coursework as I do it, though I'm not sure it helps. Mainly it's more fun than actually doing the work. Though not quite as fun as those cheerleaders popping up would be. The English department should hire some to provide motivation where needed (everywhere).

I just made my first target (I've missed every single other one I've set so far *eye roll*) of 4,000 words by half eight: managed 4,013. :) I should make 5,000 by midnight hopefully, which isn't quite the 7,000 I wanted but is better than the 1,100 I was on this morning.

There does seem to be a general air of woe hanging around. I'm not even thinking about Crew yet, though my dissertation reading actually gave me the solution to one story's plot troubles and an idea for another one. I was terrible this year too, so don't worry. We've got over two weeks yet. I'm more worried about the none-fiction, since I never quite got the hang of it. :-/ Clinging to the idea that I passed poetry last year so anything is possible.

Long comments are fine; I've written 3,000 words today so a comment is nothing. ^_^