It’s part of the very complex writing process that is the dissertation.
Stuck doesn’t (always) mean STOP. Of course you will get stuck. It’s part of the very complex writing process that is the dissertation. Sometimes you get stuck on a macro-level, when you lose faith in your chapter and fear that you have to start over; other times you get stuck on a micro-level, when you feel like you can’t write at all or you just simply feel like you’re not moving forward. Hayot recommends that the solution to both is to keep writing .