Thesis Day 16: The Sleeping Effect
Not to be confused with the sleeper effect. Or, unfortunately, a sleeper agent – though that would be pretty boss.
10 minutes later, after writing down the plot for a spy thriller featuring a sleeper agent nestled in Yale for 20+ years…
Thinking about my thesis before going to bed last night (rather, this morning, as I did so at 1AM) must have been beneficial to the old brainpan, as I awoke with a burst of insight:
1. A new organizational scheme vastly improved over my present working model
2. A new nuance to my argument resulting from a new factor to investigate and consider
And then, when I sat down at the laptop with some sugary, milky tea, I noticed the words just flowing out of me like the blood from the arms of those phlebotomized – precisely those I’m writing about.
A note on this wordcount business, which I don’t think I’ve mentioned before…
It’s inaccurate. Footnotes probably buff it to some degree, but more importantly, it doesn’t account for the great swaths of text I am likely to delete when writing. False starts, poorly articulated segues, etc.; they all fall before my Delete key. Alas that there is no EffortCount, which displays the more vital statistics of this ongoing project.
And the ‘% Done!’? Hardly. If only an essay stopped when you reached word count. Let’s not forget that this is a first draft only…
2407 / 10000 words. 24% done!
