Thanks. I'm really not sure how much moving to TeX is really just a form of procrastination.

But the thing is that it actually has inspired me to get into my writing.

One of my supervisors gave me this lovely image that really has (in conjunction with TeX) INSPIRED me.

He said... That writing a thesis can be a lot like looking at google earth. You start on the weakest zoom. The title. And you look at it a bit and after a bit you get a little curious... Then you zoom in a little to take a look. And there the Chapter headings emerge. And you sit with that a bit and start to get curious... So you zoom in again and there are the subsections... And after a time... A particular subsection grabs you and so you zoom in on that. And before you know it you are trying to figure out 4 or maybe 5 paragraphs. And if it starts to get to you... Zoom out a little and see what grabs you.

And in theory you can do this in Word too (but I wouldn't know how). But I've got this lovely titlepage generated and it is all hyperlinked so its easy for me to go directly to particular sections. And I can easily create layers of headings - in as much detail as I want. So I really can get the grain down to about four paragraphs (about two double spaced pages). And that... Feels manageable.

And instead of going: Am I going to work on my thesis today?
The question has become: What part of my thesis am I going to work on today?

And that is great. And all would be well in my world if only it wasn't for Computer Modern Fonts and the %#@&#! APA.