wow...total procrastination

[blackest_knight]

this is the writing forum....so I guess i'm free to procrastinate here....lol, i'm going to sticky this thread when i'm done so others can join in on the procrastination when they want to/need to....

....so I should be writing my proposal....i have just over a half a week left....plus an exam to study for....and what do i do? i play starcraft almost all night (minus going out for a few hours....but i guess i was also sort of procrastinating there, even if it WAS planned like a week ago). and now here i am....typing because i can (and i don't feel like going to sleep right now, nor do i want to even look at the proposal)

thinking about the proposal....it's due next monday.....this whole thing is scaring me - i feel like i don't know anything! my advisor sat me and my friend down last night and went over exactly what we're doing, which helped a bit....but today i totally put it off! you have to write an introduction which talks about the literature (like other studies that have been done, and you gradually narrow it down to your area) and i don't even know where to start with it! (I think I'm doing ok on some of the other areas....kind of like i'm running out of things to write, so now i'm putting it off).

i know this is only the first draft that's due...but my advisor keeps telling us to do a good job on it, so she has less work to do (and we can get started faster)....so that's totally not helping things. i know it isn't true, but i feel like it has to be perfect! or at the very least, super duper good. so i guess that's totally not helping

so yeah. when it comes right down to it, i guess that's what's bothering me...

[morgo]

Well, think of it this way: Regardless of what happens, you don't have to work on it after monday. Wel, the first draft anyways...

[blackest_knight]

yeah. then i'll have to actually make it perfect

[blackest_knight]

ahhhhh!!!!!!!

I hate this stupid book report thing!!!! I've been trying to write it all night and the words just aren't coming!!!!! Everytime I think I've got something, it just won't work!!!! I tried writing it from the beginning, then from the middle, then the end, nothing!!!! I've procrastinated all evening, interspersed with attempts to get it started, and it's just not going. I know, it's got to be writer's block....but I tried free writing to get things going, and that didn't help either!!!! I wrote about something else for a bit, I wandered away from my comp, then I watched a few episodes of Home Movies to totally get my mind off of it....well, I kept thinking about it, and still nothing!!!

It's late, and I want to call it in, but I'm thinking I'm going to do a bit of reading for my proposal before I go to bed....at least my whole evening won't have been wasted!!!!

[blackest_knight]

well, here I am....procrastinating (sort of). I have this assignment due Tuesday....I thought part of it was really dumb, but I managed to get that done earlier today.....it's the part that I didn't think was dumb that I'm having trouble with....I have to write an essay/composition thing on my side on the "academic writing debate" between Peter Elbow and David Bartholomae....I know who I'm siding with....I'm just really not sure what to say (or where to begin I guess)....so here I am, just sort of rambling....I figure if I can't get started soon, I'm going to try doing something else for a bit, then heading back to this....