Self-Imposed Deadline

Today, August 31st, is my self-imposed deadline for getting the revised (and revised again) proposal to Dr. S for his final approval.  I've just done that.  Yay!

This weekend is a long one in North America, so the rest of it is dedicated to a 7-mile run and reading more articles for the literature review - that self-imposed deadline is October 13.  

I'm reminded of a quote I found earlier in the year from Dissertation Research and Success:

You have to throw out all the creative writing strategies you’ve learned since elementary school and become comfortable with the redundancy and specificity necessary in scholarly writing.

It bruises the ego badly.  I can do it, but becoming comfortable with redundancy and specificity is a tough ask!