I’ve been working on a long paper / rough dissertation draft for my advisor. As of this morning I was up to about 30 pages, including both smooth-ish text and some notes to myself, along with some text retained from earlier drafts of this effort.

As this eventually needs to get into the standard dissertation template, and it’s easier to write in the required template than to write someplace else and copy into the template (Word formatting quirks can be a royal pain in the butt), I decided to transfer my writing to date into the dissertation template and continue writing from there.

A double-spaced template is a wonderful thing. I instantly went from a 30 page draft to one exceeding 70 pages. By the time I was done writing for the day, I was up to 78 pages total. That assumes I don’t do any more writing, but I probably will. I have plans for a nice cigar and a glass of Scotch this evening, and I always write better with a stogie to stimulate the muse.