This seminar related to bottlenecks in your research. Rather depressing when the whole thing feels like you’re stuck in the neck of the bottle, like a cartoon character with your head bulging out, or should that be in?
The key is to stop procrastinating (ha!) and just to start. So if there’s a section in your thesis that is weighing heavily on your mind, and you don’t know what to do about it, start writing using one of the techniques from the first session. So for example, use freewriting, freefalling (the one where you make the text white on white so that you can’t make edits) or writing in a different genre. Even if you only do 20 minutes to start with, you should gradually find that you’ve worked through the bottleneck and gone some way towards writing the section that was causing all that anxiety.
