Although I have not gotten quite as far on my doctoral dissertation as I had hoped to by now, I managed to pass the 100 page mark yesterday. Currently, it stands at 132 pages. To be clear, quite a few pages belong to the references pages, the multiple appendices, the table of contents, and a few formatting pages that I have yet to fill out (such as the abstract). That said, it felt good to see my page count cross into that third digit.
This is not the most that I have ever written on a single work. That prize still goes to my novel, Dragon Hunter, which weighs in at 290 pages. For that matter, each year I write well over 200 pages worth of blog entries like this one. As I've done this for nearly eight years, that means I've written over 1,500 pages of what could be considered a memoir. Considering that this doctoral study has been in the making for three years come Sunday, this dissertation has actually been a rather slow pace of writing for me.
I suppose that the difference is not only the amount of research and detail required for a dissertation, but also the lengthy scrutiny by multiple experts--not to mention the multiple exchanges and revisions required--that have made this paper such a monumental task. Indeed, even if I get a completed draft sent out by my next meeting with my committee chair on Tuesday, the review process will likely take me through the summer, and perhaps through the fall before my dissertation is approved. There's quite a ways still to go.
Still, passing a hundred pages isn't nothing.
This is not the most that I have ever written on a single work. That prize still goes to my novel, Dragon Hunter, which weighs in at 290 pages. For that matter, each year I write well over 200 pages worth of blog entries like this one. As I've done this for nearly eight years, that means I've written over 1,500 pages of what could be considered a memoir. Considering that this doctoral study has been in the making for three years come Sunday, this dissertation has actually been a rather slow pace of writing for me.
I suppose that the difference is not only the amount of research and detail required for a dissertation, but also the lengthy scrutiny by multiple experts--not to mention the multiple exchanges and revisions required--that have made this paper such a monumental task. Indeed, even if I get a completed draft sent out by my next meeting with my committee chair on Tuesday, the review process will likely take me through the summer, and perhaps through the fall before my dissertation is approved. There's quite a ways still to go.
Still, passing a hundred pages isn't nothing.
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