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Yay me, me so super!

This enthusiasm is due entirely to me being able to create two thousand words yesterday. Sure, it's not really what you might call 'coherent', or maybe even 'useful' text, but I wrote a few pages in one day and that's got to count for something.

I have always had difficulties with word limits. I've always had to rely on the minus ten per cent leeway. Generally if I keep a tally of how my wordcount progresses, over the course of an hour it may look something like

8-34-26-50-54-60-72-86-103-65-70-73-73-73-87-90--- and it never occurs to me that if I stopped doing a word count every two seconds I might actually get some words done.

So for me to actually write something is pretty speccy. I also feel a bit relieved - having just spent almost a year worrying about not writing and how everyone is working harder than I am and knowing that sooner or later my supervisors will figure out that I really don't belong here, actually coming up with stuff to write makes me feel like I'm clawing back some lost ground.

Now, if I can get some more done, and then prune it down a bit to make more sense (there are some paragraphs that only make sense to the Sanna-at-eight-in-the-evening-yesterday), then I'll be quite pleased with myself.

Published Tuesday, February 06, 2007 10:09 AM by Sanna
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Tuesday, February 06, 2007 9:16 PM by Helks

# re: Yay me, me so super!

Well done matey! I can totally relate to your relationship with the word counter. I was addicted to it, and as soon as I hit the limit, I burst into tears/laughter/screams, followed by a major let down when realising that none of the text actually made any sense, it was as good as if I had been writing random words from the dictionary. Writing is hard work, I can barely manage my daily shopping list without a tantrum, so good on you for writing lots and lots of words, no matter how crap. Respect!

Tuesday, February 06, 2007 10:14 PM by Saini

# re: Yay me, me so super!

Yay you! My cunning-as-a-fox laptop has figured the manic word count checking problem by not actually providing me with a word counter! So I just go by the a-page-equals-300-words method (Is it very accurate, I hear you ask. And I would have to say that I don't really know.). Anyway, good on you for writing two thousand words in a single day! That would take me a week. And also well done you for letting us all know about it. I was wondering what had happened to you since there hadn't been new posts for a while... (I check regularly. My substitute for checking word counts...)I've been meaning to email you for ages but haven't cause I'm lazy (busy) sorry. Hope you're ok. (And since you're reading this have a look at my very own myspace www/myspace.com/muddledstate).

Ta-taa!

Tuesday, February 06, 2007 10:58 PM by Sanna

# re: Yay me, me so super!

Oh, hurraah, it's the most loveliest, bounciest Helks and Saini!

My love-hate relationship with the word count has me desperately trawling through text to find a way to insert extra words somewhere - the odd "very" or "somewhat" may not do miracles, but at least it makes me feel like I'm making progress (in the loosest possible sense of the word).

Of course I'll need to cut them out eventually, because "very significantly" doesn't really mean much...

Kiitos visiitista kultamuruset! Tama pikku kinderyllatys yrittaa nyt lahtea tutimaan... Muisk!

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