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Emily Spencer - From Dreading My Thesis to Loving Writing

Emily Spencer narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher.

Plenty of PhD students would say writing is the part they dread most, and Emily said exactly that at her PhD interview. With submission now in sight, she describes how the thing she feared became the part of the job she enjoys most. Perfectionism, an inner critic with firm opinions and the pull of everything else competing for headspace all play a part. So does the unexpected help that came from returning after maternity leave with far less time to spare. She wrote it in the final hour of a residential writing retreat in North…

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