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damn, i'm good.
8:30pm -- 158 words. went down to work at the bar.
12:30am -- came back upstairs. dithered for a bit and then got to work.
3:30am -- 1492 words, and i'ma call it done. (i always aim for 2K and i never get there. my feeling is, i'm walking proof that it never hurt anyone to be concise. i can write a two-thousand-word essay in fifteen hundred words, yo. you don't want me to come up with five hundred more words that don't say anything, do you?, and i've said what i needed to say, ergo, i'm done.)
must remember to e-mail to professor before going to bed.
(of course, memo to self, the thesis is to be 25,000 words, +/- 10%. put another way, it could very well hurt you to be concise. get used to the fact that if you come in at 20,500 words, you're going to have to add a two-thousand-word essay before the thing will be acceptable, and in that eventuality, fifteen hundred words won't cut it.)
12:30am -- came back upstairs. dithered for a bit and then got to work.
3:30am -- 1492 words, and i'ma call it done. (i always aim for 2K and i never get there. my feeling is, i'm walking proof that it never hurt anyone to be concise. i can write a two-thousand-word essay in fifteen hundred words, yo. you don't want me to come up with five hundred more words that don't say anything, do you?, and i've said what i needed to say, ergo, i'm done.)
must remember to e-mail to professor before going to bed.
(of course, memo to self, the thesis is to be 25,000 words, +/- 10%. put another way, it could very well hurt you to be concise. get used to the fact that if you come in at 20,500 words, you're going to have to add a two-thousand-word essay before the thing will be acceptable, and in that eventuality, fifteen hundred words won't cut it.)
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I was about to comment with your final point myself. I'm always inclined to be concise, but it never seems to pay, viz. my having to rewrite a 4,000 essay so it's twice as long. Why, I don't know. Why explain something in two sentences when you can do so in one?