#as of yesterday some people i know had only written 1k 🫠

[kalorphic]

wait you’ve finished your first draft? i’m still in the proposal stages and i’m dying ;sob;

sorry i know this isn’t related to novaturient but do you have any tips for writing your diss?

Ahh the proposal stages, I remember thinking to myself at the time that I’d never manage to write 10K words lol.

My top tips are ones that I have no doubt your supervisor will try to hammer into you, but I promise you it’s for a reason:

Keep in contact with your supervisor and, if allowed, send them your draft chapters as you’re going so they can edit them and give feedback before you dump the full 10K on them.

Start writing your full dissertation draft asap!!! For the love of everything, don’t leave it until the last minute. I’ve born witness to the panic this causes and it’s not pretty…

Do your dissertation on something that you’re really passionate about (in your field). I did mine around wolves because they’re my favourite animals (I’m focusing my course on green criminology) and it made the researching stages so much more tolerable.

Do research early! Get together a list of resources/references before you start writing. It makes things a lot easier when it actually comes to the writing process.

If you get easily distracted by your phone, put it in another room. I know some people really struggle with not having their phone next to them, but trust me, you’ll notice a difference in your writing speed.

Signposting!! Make sure to signpost your paragraphs, your supervisor will eat that up.

Oh and multiple citations!! Ex. (Evans et al, 2023; Caine, 2020; and so on). My diss supervisor loved that.

Take breaks. Super obvious I know, but each chapter is like a 2.5K report, you need to take a step back sometimes so you don’t burn out.

That’s all that I can think of off the top of my head, but good luck!! You’ve got this and I promise you that as daunting as 10K words can seem, it’s totally doable <33

Obviously, everyone has different styles of working so don’t take this as gospel lol, but this is what worked for me personally.