Night Manager, Shades of Magic, Dissertation

[bratty_jedi]

I'm caught back up on Night Manager. I'm enjoying it. I promise I'll get back to my moral dilemma post at some point and hopefully more thoughts on the series overall. Maybe when it ends. Or when I magically find more hours in the day

Comments

[ancarett]

Great news on the dissertation progress, even if you feel a bit behind with the insight on the source you're assessing anew. That will be a worthwhile addition.

Keep on trucking. Remember that a crappy first draft is better than no first draft because it can be polished into beauty but the non-existent draft never can be fixed.

If it helps, I'm writing madly this week and next, finishing a super-tight chapter draft, 5k words max including references. That's an epic challenge of a different type. Writing with you!

[bratty_jedi]

The document really is kind of cool and exciting. I actually felt like I knew what I was doing with this whole history thing! But I'm just so deep in finishing that I'm overwhelmed with everything so it's like super exciting and super frustrating at the same time which makes all the stress worse because I feel like nothing is good enough and I can't be happy even when I'm doing cool things because I'm just behind. Always. No matter what I do. Write 15 to 20 pages in a week? Not good enough because didn't get through enough of the outline or didn't write 50 pages or whatever. I know that's just part of the nature of the beast and everyone in the heavy drafting gets this way sometimes so I'm just trying to keep trucking, but it is exhausting

[qwentoozla]

I must have missed your Night Manager post originally, but I think you made some interesting points there. I'll be interested to hear your other thoughts on it!

Good luck with your chapter!