T minus 44 hours til my dissertation is due, and this is the situation:
Second draft completed ✅
Now writing up my final version from the second version, one chapter at a time. Copying and pasting one paragraph at a time and making edits accordingly
Then I need to do my footnotes so far. Thankfully I have written them as I go along, there are just some areas where I need to add the footnote in and some where the footnote needs checking
My Queer History chapter is incomplete 😩 I stopped writing it part way through about a week ago bc I wanted it to be perfect and it was delaying the rest from being written. So I need to pick up where I left off and finish summarising the legislation
Need a significant amount of discussion and original thought added to the Queer History chapter. Max word count is gonna be around 2000 words for the full chapter, so probably maximum time this will take should be around 4 hours, given what I already have.
Slightly more original commentary needed around my case studies. In writing my final version, this may happen naturally (point two), so chances are there won't be too much left to add when I get to this point
Then I'll go over every sticky note that's accumulated in my room during the diss writing period because whenever I've had a random thought I Do Not Want To Forget, it's ended up on a note. So I'll go through all of them to see if any of The Thoughts were good enough to still be valid and needed
Conclusion and Intro babey!! I have versions already written up, but will likely need to re-jig and add to these
Final footnote check! And copy + paste it all into a bibliography
Check there's no highlight or notes to self left on the document, check all chapters are there, check my contents page adds up, page numbers, font, sizing, spacing etc etc
Acknowledgements :') I can't wait to write these, so I'm leaving it to the end as a reward. Omg I'm so excited :D
Then I can submit it!! It's a lot of work and I'm going to be at this for the next 2 days with little snack and sleep breaks, but I just know it'll all be so so worth it in the end :)
