Diss Draft Sent!

So my first full draft is done. I told my chair it would be done by the end of March, but it's April 1-2..I'm done at 1230am after another 9-hour writing day. I wish now I would have journaled how many hours each day I wrote and what I got accomplished. That would have been nice. 

Too bad. Too late.

My eyes are about to bleed and I almost had a meltdown when I was 20 pages out from finishing my last round of edits. I'm praying to my Savior Jesus Christ that the feedback will be simple stuff and this last stage will be smooth sailing. 

I don't want to gloat, but the bottom of my screen DOES say 140 pages and 39,051 words.

I'm quite pleased and tickled chocolate :)

The truth shall set you free--dissertation style.

It's 1246am and I just got back from Bible study. I enjoyed myself.  I wanted to finish up a little bit of work so I could sleep well and accidentally not go to the gym in the morning and enjoy the sunrays on my legs instead.  So I send of a strong draft of my Chapter 1 or my Introduction section--apparently the intro is one of the last sections you write..apparently academicians don't count. My drafts have gone Chapter 2 (literature review), 3 (methods), 4 (analysis), 1 (intro) and THEN 5 (findings, recommendations, conclusion)..

Right before bed, I read up on a GREAT article on formatting and order of a dissertation from University of Arkansas--Little Rock (for those who care) and they had this quote:

Chapter 5 is often the weakest one in the first draft of the completed dissertation. Students often are exhausted from the prior work and are rushing to finish Chapter 5 by a deadline.

All I could say was, "Man, if that AIN'T the truth!"

Gotta press through..

Almost there!

April 19ish.

I can do this!

Good night.