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Polter-Cow - Jan 16, 2005 7:53:05 pm PST #4841 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

I need an outline by Tuesday morning. I want to have the thing written by mid-May.


beekaytee - Jan 16, 2005 7:55:52 pm PST #4842 of 10002
Compassionately intolerant

It's on potassium channels and lipid interactions....

I'm sure, if I rearranged all those words, I'd come up with a 42-like answer to all the world's problems.

Much sense-making and rich-resource ~ma to you, my paper crafting friend. I'm wishing you a sudden and fruitful breakthrough that makes it all fall easily into place. That or really strong stimulants and pounds of luck.


beathen - Jan 16, 2005 7:55:56 pm PST #4843 of 10002
Sure I went over to the Dark Side, but just to pick up a few things.

For me, the outline is always the hardest part. You have to take all the data you've accumulated and organize it into something understandable. Yuck. Writing the actual paper? Much easier IMO.

Lots of outline~ma to you.


beekaytee - Jan 16, 2005 7:56:43 pm PST #4844 of 10002
Compassionately intolerant

Agreed! Once the outline is done, the rest is cake.


Susan W. - Jan 16, 2005 7:57:32 pm PST #4845 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

What is this "outline" of which you speak?

On assignments where we had to turn in an outline, I wrote the paper first, then made an outline of it.


beathen - Jan 16, 2005 8:02:10 pm PST #4846 of 10002
Sure I went over to the Dark Side, but just to pick up a few things.

On assignments where we had to turn in an outline, I wrote the paper first, then made an outline of it.

I think we have an over-achiever in here tonight! Writing an outline and a paper at the last minute is a time honored tradition.


beekaytee - Jan 16, 2005 8:04:51 pm PST #4847 of 10002
Compassionately intolerant

beathen is me!

TIME honored tradition. There is no other way.

I learned how to do that 3 x 5 card outline (and to procrastinate) in the 7th grade. Can't produce a paper any other way!

And honestly? The ones I pulled out of my orafice at the last minute always turned out the best.


Susan W. - Jan 16, 2005 8:04:51 pm PST #4848 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

Oh, I was all about the last minute. It was almost a matter of pride to see how close I could cut it without turning in the paper late or allowing my grade to suffer.

Which just means I've had to completely retrain myself now that I'm self-employed. No one gives me a deadline on a novel, and you can't write a 400-page novel on one burst of adrenaline like a 10-page paper.


beathen - Jan 16, 2005 8:07:45 pm PST #4849 of 10002
Sure I went over to the Dark Side, but just to pick up a few things.

you can't write a 400-page novel on one burst of adrenaline like a 10-page paper.

There's no comparison here. Writing a 400-page novel is something you (hopefully) like and/or want to do. Papers for school - those you are forced to do and doing them at the last minute always forces you to be clever and not over-write it.


Polter-Cow - Jan 16, 2005 8:08:15 pm PST #4850 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

No one gives me a deadline on a novel

Next Wednesday. Go.