By the end of today (ideally *sigh*) I have to submit three huge chapters of my PhD thesis to my supervisors for Three Year Review (it's a big thing...). I've been working on these chapter for months and months to get them to the first draft state and then weeks non-stop more to polish them. I'm still not completely happy with what I have written, but I have to stop somewhere and I keep telling myself this is not the final final submittion, so whatever I have at this stage, will have to do...
In the meantime, I've got the The Hayden Project manuscript feedback returned from the test-readers and now these piles of notes sit on my desk taunting me, tempting me. What makes me feel a little bit calmer about Hayden and her crew is that now she's got a spunky completely rewritten query that makes me proud. It took me about a year but I got this query where I wanted it...