Writer's Block
May. 26th, 2005 09:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annwfynIt was pointed out to me yesterday that it seems to take me an awfully long time to write essays. I can spend hours fiddling with an essay, writing and re-writing paragraphs, trying to organise bullet points, and in the end it will take me days just to write 5000 words.
On some level, I do think this is ridiculous. It does not take days to just hit the keyboard. It doesn't take days to churn out something...anything. In my days at the National Archives of Scotland, when I was bored and producing a![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
shadow_writers story per day, plus voluminous quantities of e mail, I think I was churning out more than that.
So why does it take me so long now?
Why do I need to potter endlessly?
And why is it when I am 500 words away from completing this goddamn essay, handing it in and being finished with it all, I am utterly at a loss as to how to do this?
On some level, I do think this is ridiculous. It does not take days to just hit the keyboard. It doesn't take days to churn out something...anything. In my days at the National Archives of Scotland, when I was bored and producing a
shadow_writers story per day, plus voluminous quantities of e mail, I think I was churning out more than that. So why does it take me so long now?
Why do I need to potter endlessly?
And why is it when I am 500 words away from completing this goddamn essay, handing it in and being finished with it all, I am utterly at a loss as to how to do this?
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Arthur Rackham
Date: 2005-05-26 08:35 am (UTC)I get cranky when there is no cat :)