The holiday vortex –this time between Thanksgiving and Christmas/New Year’s –can suck the energy out of the weak or unprepared.
But for many veteran writers, and if dissertation writers aren’t veteran writers, I don’t know who would be, this week and next week offer some great writing moments.
If handled right, these next two weeks may be just the right time to step up your process.
When you feel like you don’t have time to write your diss, that may actually be the time to look for 20 minutes here and there
Maintain the high level of energy that being busy and even a bit crazy this week have given you.
If you maintain that level of energy, you think only about doing the next important task.
You don’t give yourself the chance to make up excuses or to question whether you know what you’re doing.
It’s possible that the more you have going on, the more you want to come back to your writing. After being pulled in two or three other directions, you value the time you can put on your diss.
You ask: “Oh, what can I get done in the next ten days when so much else is going on?” The answer lies in this way of thinking: Think of the time when you were the most productive in the least amount of time. Live in that moment.
If you did it before, you can do it again.
Keep busy. Maintain that high-energy level. Storm ahead. And everyone else—stand back, folks! Out of the way! Writer at work!
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Until next time,
Nancy
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