thesis update

Right. Bit of a writing setback.

I posted my draft-in-progress to my advisor in mid-August, and I waited for feedback for two weeks. Last week, the advisor sent out an e-mail to the group to check in with everyone and to ask for drafts from those he hadn't received drafts from yet. I e-mailed back that I had posted my draft in the dropbox two weeks prior (which was the standard procedure for every class before this). He e-mailed me that he didn't realize I had done that and could I e-mail my draft to him directly, which I did. However, this means I've waited nearly three weeks for feedback. Part one of the thesis course ends at the end of the month, so I need to have a revised draft done by then, and it would be helpful to know how much revision I need to do ASAP. Especially since I'm not a fast writer when it comes to fiction.

I went to Karen-the-acupuncturist last week because I've been really tired lately, no matter how much sleep I get. She said that working full time and working on my thesis both before and after work is a hell of a lot of writing, so no wonder I feel drained all the time - all of me is being poured out on paper these days. I didn't have this fatigue while working on the other courses for this degree. However, the writing assignments for those courses were far smaller than the thesis.

Regardless of when I get advisor feedback, I'm still working on the draft I have. I'm actually glad Saturday will be yucky, weather-wise. I ran all my errands tonight, so I have the whole weekend to work on the gaps in the narrative. I still think it's getting smidgens better each time I work on it, which is really the only thing that keeps me working on it.

I'm also re-reading Stephen King's On Writing, which I think is one of the better writing books out there and is great inspiration.

I'm about halfway through the books on my guided reading list. Actually, you might say I'm overdosing on the list, possibly to pour something back into myself. I recently finished re-reading Jane Eyre and Rebecca (which is a more modern version of Jane Eyre), and now I'm reading Daphne by Justine Picardie, which is a fictional account of Daphne du Maurier's interest in the Brontes. She was a member of the Bronte Society, and she wrote a biography of Branwell Bronte (The Infernal World Of). Must pick up a copy of that eventually...