I need inspiration - HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[J.A.Sucker]

OK, here's my quandary:

I have to write my PhD thesis, but I'm a waste of oxygen these days. Even moreso than normal, if that's not totally impossible to belive. I can't even get started, even though I have lots of the material already written in the half-dozen papers that I've had published.

The question is how can I get going? Please inspire me. Feel free to fling the needed insults/pics/anedotes that will help the Sucker become Dr. Sucker. Thanks! I'm hoping that this thread becomes a repository for all that is good and bad with OOT. Don't let me down, all!

[Asufiji2004]

stop being a [censored] and do it

[phage]

In my graduate program we were allowed to use our papers as the main chapters of the thesis but needed bridging paragraphs to join them into a cohesive text. Can you do something similar? What are you studying?

[J.A.Sucker]

That's the pathetic part of it. I have 6 of the 8 chapters basically written, but I need to expand them slightly (including writing intros, etc). I'm also a prolific writer, so it shouldn't be that hard. However, I'm more prolific as a lazy bastard, so it is.

I'm doing physical chemistry, btw.

[phage]

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That's the pathetic part of it. I have 6 of the 8 chapters basically written, but I need to expand them slightly (including writing intros, etc). I'm also a prolific writer, so it shouldn't be that hard. However, I'm more prolific as a lazy bastard, so it is.

I'm doing physical chemistry, btw.

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I had a hard time with my thesis as well. The thing is the longer you put it off the worse the pressure feels. You start to convince yourself that you can't get any writing done, you begin to get distracted easily and thus begins a vicious cycle.
This will sound like very tired advice but set some reasonable goals (expand one intro per day) or set aside a specific amount of time for writing. get feedback from people. If you let them know you will have something for them to read you will force yourself to get something down on paper.
Good luck!

[hobbsmann]

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That's the pathetic part of it. I have 6 of the 8 chapters basically written, but I need to expand them slightly (including writing intros, etc). I'm also a prolific writer, so it shouldn't be that hard. However, I'm more prolific as a lazy bastard, so it is.

I'm doing physical chemistry, btw.

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What's your name I want to look up some of your papers on isiknowledge

[sfer]

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That's the pathetic part of it. I have 6 of the 8 chapters basically written, but I need to expand them slightly (including writing intros, etc). I'm also a prolific writer, so it shouldn't be that hard. However, I'm more prolific as a lazy bastard, so it is.

I'm doing physical chemistry, btw.

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What's your name I want to look up some of your papers on isiknowledge

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Just Another...

[J.A.Sucker]

My papers are sited as:

Sucker, J.A.
Sucker, Just A.
Sucker, Just Another,
Sucker, Just

Happy hunting!

[Brain]

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That's the pathetic part of it. I have 6 of the 8 chapters basically written, but I need to expand them slightly (including writing intros, etc). I'm also a prolific writer, so it shouldn't be that hard. However, I'm more prolific as a lazy bastard, so it is.

I'm doing physical chemistry, btw.

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What's your topic?

[nothumb]

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That's the pathetic part of it. I have 6 of the 8 chapters basically written, but I need to expand them slightly (including writing intros, etc). I'm also a prolific writer, so it shouldn't be that hard. However, I'm more prolific as a lazy bastard, so it is.

I'm doing physical chemistry, btw.

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So how long do you have to do this? Need to finish it this semester?

If it wasn't hard science I would just offer to finish it for you in exchange for some poker lessons and a bottle of the Chinese, but I'm not a chemist.

Although, I'd still do it. I can fake it.

NT