That’d be “bust” then.
Remember 100k or bust?
I’m pretty happy with the progress I made on my thesis proposal, but I did not meet the 100k goal. Or the complete-draft goal. Or the 50k goal. Oops.
I do have a document that’s shaping up very nicely. Other things intervened and I didn’t push as hard as I could have to get the word-count up. So it goes.
It turns out that free-writing is very useful for clarifying ideas, so I think I will keep alternating that with work on the document itself. What I’m doing is easily delineated by which program I’m using—WriteRoom for free-writing, Scrivener for more careful but still rough writing, and TexShop for actual draft content.
It always sounds so rigid when I describe my various processes. It’s not, really. But I’m glad to go with what works for me, even if it sounds a little crazy to other people.