Michi's moat

I'm done.

This is, however, contingent on my changing my mind on source code pages. They now count towards my page count. And thus, with 53 written pages against the 22 when I started, I have 31 pages written, which is at least one page per day in November.

So why this flip-flop, you might ask. I have had a conversation for a bit over a week now with The Influential People In My Field - who, to a large part, are also my thesis examiners. This conversation started with me sending out a lemma and asking for opinions, and now boiled out to them asking for precise context for the lemma before they can even try to think about it sensibly. Undertones seem to indicate that my way of viewing the subject matter is alien enough for them to be an actual obstacle in the discussion.

Hence, it is in everyones interest that they get to read my thesis draft. In order to learn about my point of view from it. Thus, my thesis draft should, preferably, actually be good at the task of teaching them about what I do.

So I got a direct order from my thesis supervisor to start polishing, now. And thus, I reevaluate the value of ignoring source code, and conclude that I finished InaDWriMo.

Either this week went surprisingly well, or I set my goals way too low. I'm closing in on the point where I have more topics covered than not - and I'm well past 50% of the pages. For the remaining text, there are a few bits where I still need the proper references around; one paper I still try to understand completely, and a few bits to fill in from one of my papers.

Once all that's done comes the big job of taking the mass of text and massage it into something that's actually both consistently written and a pleasure to read, instead of the massive text chunks it currently is.

But I should probably be quite pleased with my progress.