Game World Phenomenology

 The vacations have begun, and that means I have to get back into full swing with my dissertation. It's not easy, because I'm still hesitating to produce a final version. I think this has to do with two things: firstly, the need to stop expanding and instead link all the pieces together, and secondly, self-doubt, which leads to procrastination. I am consciously working against both. So my main goal this week is to reread some parts of the key texts I've been using and start revising and rewriting by Friday. I've also made a final backup copy of my text so that I have a copy to look through for things I may have deleted too quickly. These strategies are aimed at med confidence and a good restart on full-time writing.

 The editing has begun, I have spent most of the day getting started. My work consists of five parts, the first is the obligatory preamble (method and theory and stuff), the second is about images, the third about experience and the fourth about time and space in games, the last is end stuff (conclusion, bibliography etc). Today I've revised the introductions to parts two and three (part four is next) to remove a lot of superfluous stuff that just makes everything more confusing. So not only have I revised a few pages and finished two introductions, I've also clearly delineated what will be cut from the rest of the manuscript over the next few weeks. Great start. I've seen that Riven is getting a remake. If it comes to the Nintendo Switch, I'll play it again, because I really liked it the first time.