Hopefully everything's pleasantly resolved and soundly asleep in a fuzzy blanket by now, which is certainly where things usually are by the time I manage to write about them.
I definitely work best under the influence of deadlines and adrenaline, but the adrenaline doesn't kick in until I think I don't have time left to finish the paper. Unfortunately, my estimates of how long the paper will take to finish assume that I'll be writing with adrenaline, and the adrenaline doesn't start until I get past the point where I think I can finish the paper. This writing technique worked so much better back when I was still writing 15 page papers. For some reason, 20 page papers take more than three times longer to write than 15 pagers, but my adrenaline system hasn't figured that out yet.
What surprises me is that you weren't dreaming about the essay. Usually my sleep-addled brain keeps on thinking about the same thing and then my alarm clock starts beeping and I turn it off thinking, "I am already working on my paper. Surely there is no need to get up. Funny that I never realized how well the Bernstein bears explain Eliade's theories of sacred space."
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Date: 2003-05-21 02:07 pm (UTC)I definitely work best under the influence of deadlines and adrenaline, but the adrenaline doesn't kick in until I think I don't have time left to finish the paper. Unfortunately, my estimates of how long the paper will take to finish assume that I'll be writing with adrenaline, and the adrenaline doesn't start until I get past the point where I think I can finish the paper. This writing technique worked so much better back when I was still writing 15 page papers. For some reason, 20 page papers take more than three times longer to write than 15 pagers, but my adrenaline system hasn't figured that out yet.
What surprises me is that you weren't dreaming about the essay. Usually my sleep-addled brain keeps on thinking about the same thing and then my alarm clock starts beeping and I turn it off thinking, "I am already working on my paper. Surely there is no need to get up. Funny that I never realized how well the Bernstein bears explain Eliade's theories of sacred space."