Any student parents online today... I need some motivation to write 2000 words so I'll be posting here every 250 words - please support this good cause :-D

[Raggydoll]

Hello all,

Well as the title says I'm writing 2000 words and so far I've done everything and anything rather than sit down and actually start typing...

The assigment is for the OU's A200 (Exploring History; Medieval to Modern) and the subject for this essay is Empire.

I have 2000 words to write and I will post here every 250 or so... wish me luck!

Oh god, me too. My 'quota' for the day is 1500 words minimum. Bah! Get off the internet and work, the pair of us!

Keep on working

I'm an ex student parent and I feel your pain. Good luck! If I see wither of you anywhere else I shall give you a swift kick up the backside .

Good luck to you too unclefluffy; will you also post every 250 or so? A bit of competition might prevent me dozing off...

Thanks everyone else too , see you in 250!

250 done - took longer than expected - aiming to to next 250 by 2.30pm

Well done, hope the next 250 flows well :)

You'll be fine

I did 2000 on Friday between 5:30 & 11:30

Keep going

How is it going??

Only 500 words done but had to stop a 3.30 when school ended and only just got back to it... hoping to write another 500 before bed which leaves 1000 for tomorrow night so could be a late one.

To be honest it has been a bit of a slog so far, I've agonised over every word; I think for the rest of tonight I'm just going to cover all the main points in my plan without paying to much attention to language and structure, hopefully that way the word count will climb faster and I'll have less to do tomorrow.

Poor you, some just don't come do they? I'm of the last minute frantic typing school myself so I am admiring your work ethic. Keep it up (adopts schoolmarmish tone )

771 !

Doing well

Keep at it

Going to bed now.... 1322, yay

Only 750 to write tomorrow :-D

Wonder how unlcefluffy got on?

Are you up early & at it?

Oh god you had to ask. I wrote loads. But I also deleted loads. So my net total was (drum roll please) 48 words. Waahhh! Jealous of KatyMac's 2000 words in 6 hours. I could do with writing 2000 words today, but annoyingly I've already written the easy bits so it seems unlikely.

Oh dear

Mine is sciency so lots of explaining documents

I've done the literature review (aka the explaining bit). Now I have to do the analysing bit. It's taking a bit longer. Sigh... And my data is fiddly and excuses, excuses, excuses...

Are you sciency too unclefluffy?

Not really - social sciences. But it's dressed up with lots of numbers and charts so it's more convincing

You?

i'm back now for the last 750... its a late start as i've been at work today and kids didn't settle 'till gone 8.30 (typical)!

Good luck - keep focused

How is it going for you both?

hello - sorry for not posting.. I tried to post just after I emailed the final draft which was about 4am on Friday morning but couldn't for some technical reason I don't understand.

Anyway needless to say I did finish it so thanks for the motivation - It has even been marked and returned, I got 77 which is okay.

Good for you - Glad you got it finished