Once more with meaning

That one page of the dissertation I started last week? Junked. Gone. A false start.

Tonight I started my dissertation for good. How do I know this? I was writing in complete paragraphs. I had a sense of what should go next. I used a footnote.

Running page count: 1.5 (it's a start, okay?)
Words added to spellcheck: narratively, palimpsestic