Post thesis writing blahs
It's quite natural to want to take a break from writing after doing the equivalent of many marathons in order to produce a defendable thesis. But the break has turned into an unpaid, unappreciated leave of absence and is quickly becoming a serious case of the blahs. It's not that I don't have ideas, or even in-progress projects, it's just that it's all too easy to let the inner voice say "hey, I just wrote a 110 page thesis, I need a break. Put on a DVD and get me a gin & juice while you're up". The inner voice is such a lazy arsehole, I swear.
I actually miss getting up and spending a good part of the morning writing. For awhile I had my daily target at 500 words. I would do 500 no matter what, and then power on past 1000, sometimes to around 1500, if I was really on a roll. I'd start with 300 words of free, non-stop writing on a short story, "Grozny", and then go straight into thesis work. Since I write pretty clean copy the first time round, most of what I wrote was usable if not necessarily in the order it was written. I need to get back into a routine, and get on with it already. I'm hoping to have a more solid base of freelance contacts for when I'm in Europe, and time is limited for building that up. I've also got a large list of tasks to sort through:
Set a new writing target and write everyday
Get 3 queries sent out this week
Finish the course syllabus
Pay Discovery, get accounts paid up and in order
Rent cheques to landlord
Clean up the house
Medical claims
Travel arrangements
Excel charts for work
Do up the bloody overdue-since-April 30th taxes
Get a tuition refund from school
Start returning the boatloads of library books I have, before they are all due at once in September
Saw the new Superman yesterday, despite hating Superman. And you know what? I STILL HATE SUPERMAN. But he was hot, I'll give him that. When I find a reality in which all problems can be solved by whipping them into outerspace, I'll maybe alter my opinion. But only if he stops flying around with a bunched fist, cuz he looks like a moron when he does that. A hot moron, but a moron nonetheless.
I actually miss getting up and spending a good part of the morning writing. For awhile I had my daily target at 500 words. I would do 500 no matter what, and then power on past 1000, sometimes to around 1500, if I was really on a roll. I'd start with 300 words of free, non-stop writing on a short story, "Grozny", and then go straight into thesis work. Since I write pretty clean copy the first time round, most of what I wrote was usable if not necessarily in the order it was written. I need to get back into a routine, and get on with it already. I'm hoping to have a more solid base of freelance contacts for when I'm in Europe, and time is limited for building that up. I've also got a large list of tasks to sort through:
Set a new writing target and write everyday
Get 3 queries sent out this week
Finish the course syllabus
Pay Discovery, get accounts paid up and in order
Rent cheques to landlord
Clean up the house
Medical claims
Travel arrangements
Excel charts for work
Do up the bloody overdue-since-April 30th taxes
Get a tuition refund from school
Start returning the boatloads of library books I have, before they are all due at once in September
Saw the new Superman yesterday, despite hating Superman. And you know what? I STILL HATE SUPERMAN. But he was hot, I'll give him that. When I find a reality in which all problems can be solved by whipping them into outerspace, I'll maybe alter my opinion. But only if he stops flying around with a bunched fist, cuz he looks like a moron when he does that. A hot moron, but a moron nonetheless.
posted by grad student hack at 1:11 PM
3 Comments:
I had some serious blahs after finishing - I think I had told you that already. But I have also struggled with really getting back into writing. I think I'm rather good at it, but I keep finding I'm not actually doing it. For what it is worth, I have rather liked this getting of a good-paying brainless job. But yeah, I think about writing a whole lot.
But thinking about writing is really not the same a writing.
meh.
And blogging about writing, I am finding, is not really the same as writing either. D'oh. :)
Yeah, I think the blahs are a common motif in post-grad degree life. I could forstall them abit by plunging into a PHD, but I don't think that's a great idea. I think I'd like to do a lot more work on my non-academic writing, so that it provides a viable alternative to professoring, should I want an alternative (or even a nice sideline).
I am very much excited after look over this blog.now i can write easily thesis for my phd course...:) Thesis Writing.
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