I am immediately taken back to my PhD days… in a good way. Thank you 🙂
A part of me wants to try and name the editing stages of my doctoral thesis, but a big part of me just says: ‘don’t go there’ 😅.
The last few months of editing the thesis were kind of fun (polishing sentences to just sound nice… and trimming fly away things), although I ended up lying on the floor editing on the final night…. Glass of red one at hand. Just. One. Last. Read… Gulp. Done.
Oh I remember the never ending PhD edits too - I remember one round when I was italicising some commas in the bibliography after my supervisor pointed them out, and I realised I really had gone next level! But I loved the attention to detail. That moment when you realise you’re done is so special!
Sara- A great piece. I particularly resonated with this part: “Most of the writing process is actually editing: painstakingly reworking and strengthening each word, line, chapter, character, theme and plot strand.” This is true for fiction as it is for non-fiction. I appreciate the reminder. Hope you’re well this week? Cheers, -Thalia
Thanks Thalia - glad this one resonated with you! A good reminder for me too as it can be so easy to get caught up in trying to make the writing 'perfect' first time!
I am immediately taken back to my PhD days… in a good way. Thank you 🙂
A part of me wants to try and name the editing stages of my doctoral thesis, but a big part of me just says: ‘don’t go there’ 😅.
The last few months of editing the thesis were kind of fun (polishing sentences to just sound nice… and trimming fly away things), although I ended up lying on the floor editing on the final night…. Glass of red one at hand. Just. One. Last. Read… Gulp. Done.
Oh I remember the never ending PhD edits too - I remember one round when I was italicising some commas in the bibliography after my supervisor pointed them out, and I realised I really had gone next level! But I loved the attention to detail. That moment when you realise you’re done is so special!
Yikes! The thought of italicised commas in the bibliography… stressful! My eyesight would never recover from such attention.
Sara- A great piece. I particularly resonated with this part: “Most of the writing process is actually editing: painstakingly reworking and strengthening each word, line, chapter, character, theme and plot strand.” This is true for fiction as it is for non-fiction. I appreciate the reminder. Hope you’re well this week? Cheers, -Thalia
Thanks Thalia - glad this one resonated with you! A good reminder for me too as it can be so easy to get caught up in trying to make the writing 'perfect' first time!