Sometimes we all need a little support.
I started seeing the #madwriting hashtag on Twitter… maybe a couple days ago? I had a suspicion of what it might be, but was too shy to ask. Luckily, @nparmalee started a Posterous for #madwriting and expounded there on what it represented for her, how it worked, etc.
She mentions that #madwriting for her at the moment is her PhD thesis. (Best of luck @nparmalee!)
That brought to my mind an online support network in which I was briefly active during the last stages of my thesis writing. (I wrote my dissertation in the summer of 2007, before I had joined Facebook or Twitter.) It was a forum/message board (remember those?) called PhinisheD.
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