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RedRob · Joined: 07 Jul 2003 Location: Narnia

I'm doing this now, and I'm striking an odd problem. As I revise the thesis I'm re-reading stuff, and can't remember writing large sections of it. It's all coherent, and ties into the flow nicely, but really, its like reading someone else's work!

Has anyone else struck this problem?

SuperFly · Joined: 09 Jul 2003 Location: In the doghouse

Pop a pm over to King Beksu, he's got around 4-5 under his belt.

kalak · Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Location: dublin

i definitely understand what you are feeling, when i read my masters thesis now i cant believe that i actually it. and i only finished it a month and a half ago!!!

mostly im just amazed at how professional it reads, i still cant see that talent in me!!!!

The evil penguin · Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 3:09 pm Post subject:

oldfatfarang · Joined: 19 May 2005 Location: On the road to somewhere.

Thesis blues - I know them well. I struggled with chapter 8 - and started smoking again. It took me 2 years to stop smoking. I had only 10 months to research and write my thesis - and eventually got an extension of 1 week to finish.

72,000 words - largely proof read - my head was spinning. Took it to the printing room - inserted the disc - and all the formating changed. Unbelievable - I just cried. The printing supervisor took pity on me and spent a day getting the formats in line again.

Printed - marked - both my supervisors wouldn't accept the grade (too low) - re-marked. I opened it up - and found a spelling mistake in the first line I read. Closed the thesis and only looked at it one more time (it scared me to think I could write like that). It's taken years for me to learn to write and talk normally again.

Good luck.

Tiger Beer · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

bluelake · Joined: 01 Dec 2005

Yep--I've done both.

Ryst Helmut · Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 2:53 pm Post subject:

Nobody likes to write, but to have written.

Good luck and have fun!

!shoosh,

Ryst

tzechuk · Joined: 20 Dec 2004

Done 2 theses, now writing 2 journal articles and prepping for a book.

Not really looking forward to the book writing, but there ya go...

mnhnhyouh · Joined: 21 Nov 2006 Location: The Middle Kingdom

On the two I have written, I had the opposite problem. I would read what I intended it to say, and not what I actually wrote. I am a much better editor of others work than I am of my own.

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Tiger Beer · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

I actually really liked the writing process A LOT.

It's the editing I hated. Often I'd begin to edit ideas thinking I needed to expand on them, and then realizing that later I actually did, so then have to throw out the editions.

Editing just sucks in general, in my opinion. The writing process is the fun part.