More Writing

"Sitting down to write feels productive, but it's easy to spend time writing and get nothing that is of use at all. On the other hand, not sitting down to write is easy, too. There's always another experiment to do, book to read, or critic to critique. 'Real life' will always call, loved ones are a font of good excuses, and if one has no loved ones to rely on, there is always the weather, or fate, or malevolent computers to blame."
From The Three Day Novel, the Two Week Dissertation, and the Un-numbered Days of Life by Victoria McGovern, Ph.D

P.S. Having been working on mine for months, I can authoritatively say that the idea "two week dissertation" is as fanciful as a rainbow-colored flying unicorn. Unless you have already done all of the research and paperwork, and you can use all 336 hours in the week productively... then it's more like a "normal" unicorn.
But it does make a nice dream.