Agony!
The pace improves marginally: one hour, 1.5 pages.
You last minute, all-nighter, blitzkrieg writers: how do you do it? What is the secret to speed?
Posted in Grad School |
The pace improves marginally: one hour, 1.5 pages.
You last minute, all-nighter, blitzkrieg writers: how do you do it? What is the secret to speed?
Posted in Grad School |
August 29th, 2007 at 5:51 pm
I used to always write things at the last minute, although I usually had figured out what I intended to say before sitting down.
For me, it was all about not second-guessing what I was saying. Sure, I occasionally cleaned up wording and such, but once I’d decided to write it, unless I could make it clearer, I didn’t change it. Probably cost me a few percentage points sometimes, but having seen what happens when I rewrite stuff that I second-guessed (see Jumbled Mess in the dictionary), I still think I made the right choice most of the time.
Having the head of the Business department chuckle that I pulled it out of my ass again, before handing me an 81% paper that I’d written the morning it was due was certainly an entertaining moment in my aborted scholastic career.
August 29th, 2007 at 5:53 pm
Let me also add a caveat to my statement:
I also never made it anywhere near grad school, so take my comments with that large brick of salt.
August 29th, 2007 at 8:26 pm
Desperation.