Thanks for that!! It seems to help. I set my timer for 20 min to begin with and said to my self to just write what comes out. The first 20 min were hard going but the second was much easier and in fact also I just kept going after my timer went off. Also what I wrote wasn't as bad as I thought it would be!. So thanks again for the advice.

I seem to have gotten worse about (or should that be better at) procrastination. I tend to leave things closer and closer to the deadline. I have to submit my 2nd year report in a weeks time and haven't started. Thankfully its only a 1000 words but I want to give my supervisor a draft early this week. I was wondering if anyone had any tips to work quicker.

I'm am currently in the second year of my phd and feel completely overwhelmed and unmotivated. I don't seem to have many results and I must admit that this is partly my fault. I could have worked harder but earlier but I'm trying to make up for it now. One of my supervisors said she was worried that I wouldn't have enough results by the end and may have to write up for a masters instead of a phd. She also said that if she was in my position she wouldn't feel comfortable taking any holidays (I'd asked if I could take 3 weeks off) and then she wrote in an email to me and my supervisors that she doesn't restrict her students holidays. My parents have complete belief in me that I work very hard and that I am in the right and my supervisors are in the wrong. I really don't want to disappoint them. I just feel like curling up in a ball and sleeping forever even though I have a poster and a 2nd report and so much more work to do.