Time with my essays

[mythematiclife]

I almost enjoy nights like this. Long, slow, intimate nights, entered with apprehension and the anxiety that I'll never finish, that when I do finish, I'll have produced shit. But, here I am right in the middle of the silent darkness, finally settled into my keys, and I know that within hours I'll be finished, before I blink, it'll be printed and

Comments

[yunitsa]

I honestly don't know how you do it. I panicked enough while working on it for a week, and I still feel the result was fairly crappy. Put me down in front of a keyboard at three a.m., and I'm not sure what I'd produce would count as English.

[mythematiclife]

It's either a horrible curse or a superpower, and I can't decide which. Though, the result is really nothing more than repetitive, incoherent ramblings which cling desperately to the two valid points I came up with while still properly awake. At least my flat mates dragged me out of bed this morning and forced me to proofread it, or I'd have handed in a conclusion in which I had sentences without verbs. I really, really need to learn to start these things earlier, even if by a couple of hours.

[darthanakin55]

I loved your last sentence. Best line I have read in a while.

I share your horrible curse-slash-superpower, as we have discussed. It is a bit like an unwieldy superpower... it allows us to accomplish seemingly amazing things, but it is fickle and nerve-wracking and who knows when someday it will not work, or work poorly, or something. (There it is again.)

Yeah.