luciab | Done! Finished! Complete!

I just finished my paper. Whew! I got it all except the concluding sentence last night. When I was reading/studying for the exam for the same class, though, I found another point that would have been good to use.... except I would have needed to add bits all the way through the paper to tie it all in. I started a final paragraph to try to include some of it without re-writing the whole paper, but couldn't make it work. This morning I read it all fresh and realized that it's fine without the extra bits, ditched the potential addition, and came up with a good closing within a few minutes. Can't tell you how happy that makes me.

I don't see how real writers like

madlori do it. I kept thinking of more stuff I wanted to put in, and suddenly it seemed like everything I read had some relation to the paper and should be included somehow. The original assignment was for 12-15 pages, but one of the other students whined it down to 10 pages minimum. I wound up with 13 and, as noted in an earlier entry, I think I could easily have done 20 pages by including some other tangents that fit nicely into the overall theme.

I did get half my reading done yesterday. Two chapters down and two to go. Since this is "studying for the final" instead of "skimming to make it through class" I've been making notes on some of the more important ideas. If I'd been a good girl during the semester and done more "studying" and less "skimming" I would (a) be more familiar with this stuff, and (b) have notes from before that I could review. Oops.