Paragraph by paragraph they say. But these paragraphs take hours to assemble. It seems like it will take fooooooorever to finish. It probably does not help that I use the page count as a progress indicator rather than the actual content. Then there are the “expanders”. Formatting that you save up for times when you feel like it will never get done and you need motivation through apparent increased page count. Some expanders:

- adding a table of contents

- adding page breaks so that each chapter starts on its own page

- adding an appendix (or even just placing the title and page for one

- adding figures (this I save until near the end) and

- I keep my document single spaced so that it is faster to scroll through but since the required format is double spaced - every hour double spacing your paragraphs just to see how many pages it will really be