Steps To Finishing
There have been many times in the last six months I’ve thought “I’ve finished!” when I’ve been working on an issue of Viva Survivors Select. I’ll be sure I’m done and then remember, oh wait:
- …I have to create jpegs of all the pages for promoting it.
- …I have to create a new page in my Payhip store for it.
- …I have to remember to promote it!
- …oh, and I’m not even close to any of those because I just remembered that I didn’t do a final proofread…
- …and I still need a nice public domain image for the bottom of page 13…
I’m getting better at mapping out all the stages so I don’t get ahead of myself. While doing so I’m reminded that this is not so different from the closing stages of a PhD journey. There’s a lot of steps you need to check off so that you can finish your PhD.
- Write your thesis.
- Definitely finish your thesis!
- Submit your thesis – having checked the regulations as well.
- Prepare for your viva.
- Have your viva.
- Do your corrections.
- Have your corrections checked.
- Submit your final version of your thesis – having checked the regulations for this again as well.
- Wait for graduation.
- And probably go to graduation too!
The viva is set up as the end of the PhD, but there are lots of steps to finishing before you’re really, truly done. Don’t lost sight of the end. Don’t forget that you will get there one day.
PS: and one more step might be to check out The Expectations Issue, the latest issue of Viva Survivors Select, newly out this last week!