What is the best way to get motivated to edit a thesis you wrote a year ago?

Spend 5 minutes, right now, editing the first page. Set a 5 minute timer. Stop reading Mahalo, stop surfing the web completely.

You just need to start. Start now. Just 5 minutes.Go.

Stop reading this.

A paycheck. (smirk) Assuming that the thesis will help you achieve an advanced degree, consider how this hurdle is only a small, short-term obstacle to bigger and better things for you and your family. You can do it!

Read some journal that are interesting to you that might publish something based on your thesis. Having an audience in mind and a possible future article planned can help you focus your work.

Print it out and put it by your bed. Then, do a few pages every night. If nothing else, it will put you to sleep.

You could also put it in your bathroom--for those time's you're looking for something to read. Either way, making it so you can do short little sections at a time rather than looking at having to do the whole thine at one time.

Commit to a minimum of a page a day. If you happen to do more, fine... but just do a page a day.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.