- Coffee - with caffeine, not from instant crystals. Preferably fresh Tim Hortons (what I am drinking right now)
- Tea, preferably chai
- Hot chocolate
- Real chocolate
- Laptop + narrow gauge lined paper
- Black Bic pens + red and blue gel pens
- Sympathetic partner for back rubs and for keeping ethernet cable away from me
- Healthy snacks: fruit and yogurt
- Mind-clearing walks
- iPod loaded with music to distract me from the agony of the writing process
Adventures in doctoral studies in English lit, tales from the city of dreaming spires, ramblings on novel-writing, book-reading, &c.
Wednesday, 21 March 2012
Chapter-Writing Survival Kit: Chapter One Edition
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Deadline,
DPhil,
Oxford,
Procrastination,
Writing
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That looks like an excellent survival kit, hehe. We have a lot of the same tastes as well, just minus the coffee. Give me double-tea instead of coffee :D
ReplyDeleteFair enough. I made it through my undergraduate degree and half my master's without coffee, but I really need it now in the mornings.
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