11 Mar 2010, 3:41 pm
11 Mar 2010, 4:11 pm
11 Mar 2010, 4:12 pm
What's your subject and what do you know about it?
Write your answer as a long WP post (or several) for the rest of us to read, then edit. 
Just tell it as a stream of thought.
If you don't do it as a MUST DO project, maybe that will take the pressure off. I have the hardest time writing when I feel I have to. It's like instant Writer's Block. 
11 Mar 2010, 4:42 pm
11 Mar 2010, 4:58 pm
Thanks for kind words, everyone. I'm just going to take it easy and go back to it tomorrow. Forcing myself to concentrate was getting me nowhere and driving me into "nuclear reactor meltdown" mode.
My subject is natural sciences
I am a bit wary of doing that because they've sophisticated programs to detect plagiarism or use of outside help, and the text might be found and recognized as mine...Thank you for offering though. *hugs*
11 Mar 2010, 5:30 pm
Everyone gets writer's block sometimes, don't beat yourself up about it
I find, if I have to write an essay, it helps to type up a really crappy rough draft, without structure or proper grammer- sometimes even just bullet points- and then go for a walk and come abck to it later.
Getting the main facts and points down on screen is the main thing; everything else is just editing and punctuation when you think about it.
I really recommend avoiding the red-bulls. One's good the night before last-minute revision, or morning of an exam, but for essays you don't want your head buzzing.
11 Mar 2010, 6:11 pm
I find, if I have to write an essay, it helps to type up a really crappy rough draft, without structure or proper grammer- sometimes even just bullet points- and then go for a walk and come abck to it later.
Getting the main facts and points down on screen is the main thing; everything else is just editing and punctuation when you think about it.
I really recommend avoiding the red-bulls. One's good the night before last-minute revision, or morning of an exam, but for essays you don't want your head buzzing.
Yes, the trick is to just start writing things down and don't worry about structure yet. It's all in the rewrite anyway, they say. You just need something to work with. When I used to paint I had blank canvas syndrome, similar to white page syndrome. An artist told me once he got past that by just flinging some paint on the canvas and then he could begin.
11 Mar 2010, 6:46 pm
12 Mar 2010, 5:57 am
I would always make crappy essays.
I made a block of information, then I would hew a few paragraphs out of it, shuffle them into an appropriate order and finally carve them into something that looked like what a human would write.
16 Mar 2010, 5:09 pm
17 Mar 2010, 3:47 am
