Supervisors are normally particularly vague and then when you ask to clarify then apparently you should know and they start laying into for not knowing.

Or perhaps that is just my supervisor?

What stage are people in at writing up?

I just feel really slow, I have been doing it 3 years 10 months now and I had hope to finish a while back,

However I suffer with motivation.

I had Harrison Ford in mind, Tom Hanks just doesn't fit your imagination when reading the book

85,000 words, christ. I probably have about 10,000 in total since October.

Mine is based on 10 chapters, I have a structure, etc so it is more a case of filling in the gaps.

I was hoping to do about 30 pages per chapter, but in reality it is more like 16.

As well as suffering with motivational issues (although that won't be an issue for much longer seeing as the money is running out), I also suffer with confidence issues and think that my work/writing just isn't good enough to achieve a PhD. Besides the fact that I have been researching on a subject that doesn't come to me easily and I struggle to understand what is actually happening outside the mathematical figures (PhD is in engineering, I studied Mathematics as an undergraduate degree), that and the lack of support is really getting to me at the moment.

How long does it take on average to write up?

Also what level of support would you expect?

I have been trying to write up since October but I am not going anywhere particularly fast, I have about 70 pages now (including large diagrams/graphs) which is about a 1/3 and I was hoping to have finished by the end of may. It is obvious now that is not going to happen now.