/whoops anon-failed. Carry on everyone, nothing to see here.
First up, lemme offer you a hug. *hugs* Second, yes, it is possible to write not just 40%, but an entire thesis in a week, as long as you adjust your expectations accordingly -- in other words, it's gonna be dog shit, but you'll get it done and that's the most important thing of all.
(Of course, your thesis isn't shit because you wrote it in a week. It's shit because you waited until there's one week left to do it.)
Once you accept that, pretty much stream-of-consciousness, mind-straight-to-paper stuff from then on. Look at your outline, do you know what goes where? If you do, put it in, if you don't, say fuck it and skip. Fill, skip, fill, skip, repeat till the end, then double back. It's dog shit, remember? You hate it, you're just shoveling from one shit pile to another. Look at this disgusting paper not in your mother tongue and is 2000 pages too long, who the hell reads this stuff, just skim. Get what you need and get the hell out, nobody cares, nobody's gonna read it anyway. They're gonna take one look and say, "Oh god, it's one of those!" This work of shame is all yours, buddy.
Repeat this "fill, skip, double back" process until submission day, or until there's nothing left to skip or fill (or edit, but I doubt you'll have that much time.) Submit. Congrats you wrote a thesis, go have a drink and don't come back before 3AM.
(The point, of course, is to lower your expectation, which is 99.9% of why you procrastinate. You want great result but you hate the work needed to put into it. That's fine, we've all been there. Your goal now is not writing an amazing thesis that will blow the board's tiny little minds -- you just need to write a thesis. Once done with the first "fill, skip" round, you'll find you actually have time to go back and add or change things, which will calm you down, and you have an idea of where you are, plus some sense of accomplishment. At least now you're getting somewhere. Then just keep going.)
And, totally not speaking from experience, *ahemhem*, but people can see a good idea even when it's just a skeleton patched with bits of skin, ya know? Filling in the meat is daunting, but as long as the structure looks coherent, you'll be judged more favorably than if you submitted an ambitious, flowery yet incomprehensible mess. Or worse, a very beautiful, very well-built bust, with the rest of the body missing.
Re: really OT question
First up, lemme offer you a hug. *hugs* Second, yes, it is possible to write not just 40%, but an entire thesis in a week, as long as you adjust your expectations accordingly -- in other words, it's gonna be dog shit, but you'll get it done and that's the most important thing of all.
(Of course, your thesis isn't shit because you wrote it in a week. It's shit because you waited until there's one week left to do it.)
Once you accept that, pretty much stream-of-consciousness, mind-straight-to-paper
stuff from then on. Look at your outline, do you know what goes where? If you do, put it
in, if you don't, say fuck it and skip. Fill, skip, fill, skip, repeat till the end, then double back. It's dog shit, remember? You hate it, you're just shoveling from one shit pile to another. Look at this disgusting paper not in your mother tongue and is 2000 pages too long, who the hell reads this stuff, just skim. Get what you need and get the hell out, nobody cares, nobody's gonna read it anyway. They're gonna take one look and say, "Oh god, it's one of those!" This work of shame is all yours, buddy.
Repeat this "fill, skip, double back" process until submission day, or until there's nothing left to skip or fill (or edit, but I doubt you'll have that much time.) Submit. Congrats you wrote a thesis, go have a drink and don't come back before 3AM.
(The point, of course, is to lower your expectation, which is 99.9% of why you
procrastinate. You want great result but you hate the work needed to put into it. That's fine, we've all been there. Your goal now is not writing an amazing thesis that will blow the board's tiny little minds -- you just need to write a thesis. Once done with the first "fill, skip" round, you'll find you actually have time to go back and add or change things, which will calm you down, and you have an idea of where you are, plus some sense of accomplishment. At least now you're getting somewhere. Then just keep going.)
And, totally not speaking from experience, *ahemhem*, but people can see a good idea even when it's just a skeleton patched with bits of skin, ya know? Filling in the meat is daunting, but as long as the structure looks coherent, you'll be judged more favorably than if you submitted an ambitious, flowery yet incomprehensible mess. Or worse, a very beautiful, very well-built bust, with the rest of the body missing.