Now what?
So I got comments back on my first draft of the thesis. The meeting with my advisor went really well, and he had extremely helpful and completely legit suggestions and comments. Not much was unexpected--I need to rework the intro and conclusion, which I absolutely intended to do because the ones I wrote were very much a place holder for when my brain became solid again and could produce actual writing, rather than babblebabblebabble which it was producing by the 25th hour of my thesis-writing march toward completion.
One of the suggestions that I was completely happy with was that I should just sit down and re-read the whole thing in one sitting so as to remove the repetitive stuff. I think it'll be useful also in order to create a well-worded and useful introduction and conclusion, as well as to get a handle on what I want to add (there's quite a bit to add, in my opinion, but we'll see...)
So now it's just making a list, creating an agenda, and getting to it. Tonight I'm making all the suggestions he wrote on the draft (which looks so much more foreboding printed out than it did on my computer screen), and I'm going to try to recreate the intro and conclusion. Tomorrow is April 1st, which means I have to hand in a draft to my second reader. So that'll hopefully be draft 2 of a draft, rather than it in its current state.
Because it's such a large job, I think I'm going to break it into themes--like fix typos first, then citations, then sentence structure, etc. etc. etc.
Here's where I wrote the thing, in my bed/library/nest/desktop/cafe, at the height of thesis writing the week of the 17th to the 21st:
I think all changes will be done at my desk, and will be aided greatly by extra large post-it notes all over the place.
Oh also, I am SO into Vampire Weekend this month, which is good, because they're coming to Brown for Spring Weekend this month.
