01-23-2013, 08:45 AM
(01-23-2013, 01:21 AM)Shannon Wrote: Write A Chapter A Day was created and scripted with standard books in mind. Instructional or perhaps fiction. If you are writing your thesis as a book, and it is of an instructional nature, the program should be suitable for you.
You can use that program with Write Now, Edit Later if you wish, since they're both 3G programs. Several people have reported good results using those two together in the past.
Thank you, Shannon!
My thesis will be bound as a book. It needs to be highly structured (chapters/sections and subsections) - similar to a good 'how-to' book. It's not instructional - I need to present and discuss an analysis in the main section. If you still think that Write a Chapter a Day could be helpful in this case, I'll continue listening to it.
I'll go ahead and purchase Write Now, Edit Later. I'm certainly a person who tends to go over and over a paragraph and or section again and again, and I'm wasting my time with it because sometimes I don't even end up using that paragraph or the whole section!
One question, Shannon: Is it OK to loop the 2 programs one after the other (program 1 - program 2 - program 1 - program 2...)? I know I've read somewhere if you use more than one program you should listen to them at different times of the day or one during the day and one during the night. However, in my case the two are related and it might be OK to listen to them 'together'. The reason I'm asking is because that way I won't forget switching programs. Also, I can't listen to a program every night - it depends whether I'm at my or at BF's place.
BTW I'm not sure whether this has to do with the sub I'm listening to, but just a few minutes ago (before writing this post), I had the thought that it should actually be possible to write my thesis quickly once the analysis is done. Over the years, I've taken tons of notes related to my thesis and those will come in handy and help me getting things on paper quickly once the analysis is done. However, whatever I've written in the past always took me a long time and I've been programmed that writing takes me a long time. I don't know whether I just want my mind to switch ('This can be written quickly. I can write my thesis quickly.') and make this work or whether it's the effect of the sub. I'd be thrilled for sure if I can write my thesis quickly and I will for sure continue listening to the sub! (Part of it is written (but some sections need reviewing/deleting) - the other part will be written once the analysis is done.)
Another thing I'd be thrilled with is to find out that subs work for me. That would be FANTASTIC!
