Small mental note - time does heal some things

[drwex]

I discovered accidentally today that I had no problem writing "my master's thesis" like normal people do. That was not true for a long time.

While working on the thing I changed all instances of "thesis" to "Grendel" as in "the monster that must be slain". At one point my only way of making forward progress on the actual text was to use the word processor to replace all instances of "the" with "the fucking". It's remarkably more relaxing to read or write about "the fucking experiment" and "the fucking results". Of course I changed it back before sending it to readers, but it got me through one four-day-weekend push.

(Preemptively, I categorized everything to do with my PhD writing as "Mordred" as in "that bastard". I still don't like the 'd' word but it's not as trauma-laden as it used to be.)

Comments

[flexagon]

Haha, that seems like a fine strategy. For my part I listened a great deal to the Led Zeppelin boxed set while doing my master's thesis, especially Disc 4... it was years before I could listen to it again without major flashbacks.