I got the comments back from my adviser on the first chapter of my thesis yesterday and much to my surprise she liked it! I’m very happy as it’s not often I get that good of a response from her so I’m really motivated. I need to get chapter 2 to her by Monday and I think I can do it. This weekend will be all about writing.
Also I went to a talk by Jason Weidemann, an acquisitions editor, from the University of Minnesota Press. While his talk focused more on getting books published, the advice overall was really great that could be applied to writing in general. I took a lot of notes during it and also recorded it on my digital voice recorder. I think having the recording will be very useful to listen to later on. In fact, knowing him already will help when the time to publish comes up (many years from now) and I active at the talk. I asked a question specifically about Minn. Press, Mechademia, and also I had the adapter that they needed for him to use his Powerpoint.
All in all yesterday was a good day. And I think today will be too.