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I know I’m a DUMBASS for this but I have ADD and can’t get started on my 8 paragraph paper that’s due tomorrow. Motivation? I welcome verbal abuse if it’ll kick me in the arse and get moving. Expecting a sound beating from Kay and Never Wrong.
—FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This article appears in Mar 26 – Apr 1, 2009.
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Put stuff in point form first, then expand on that. Break it down to small components instead of overwhelming yourself.
Now bend over for my steel-toed size 10.
8 whole paragraphs huh? Give me 20min and $20 bucks and I’ll e-mail the assignment to you.
I hear ya buddy. I have that too. I don’t know…I find if I have multiple controlled sources of data input, I can concentrate better (oddly enough). So, like, put on some classical music, the radio, something.
Then just force yourself to get started. I find and and I’m sure you have too that it’s easier once you get over the hurdle of starting.
And like Miles has pointed out, 8 paragraphs isn’t too much really. Just bang the fucker out, edit it, and go to sleepy times.
Way back in my higher education days, I had a whole ritual around writing papers. I had a sweater that I had to wear, I had to have a gin and tonic, and finally, I had to have some Santana playing in the background. I couldn’t write until I had all three. I don’t know what the fuck I was on.
I used to write everything out by hand and then type it up afterwards. That made for a long writing process. I was a “hunt and peck” typer at the time too. Man, did I ever have some late nights.
Haha, Dr. Fever, that’s awesome.
Haha. Yeah, Dr. Fever I have to say that’s the best paper writing ritual I’ve heard in awhile.
C’mon, 8 paragraphs? The first one introduces your topic and argument, and the last one concludes the main points you made about that argument. That leaves six paragraphs of actual writing.
What’s it on? Maybe the topic you chose (or were assigned) seems too broad to even begin – if that’s the case, narrow it down to a specific element. Try to relate it, if you can, to something that you actually care about. That’s kinda the trick to writing, even if the topic’s boring as all fuck – choose an argument or something to defend. Pretend you really, truly, care about it and if you get stuck, think back to the original argument and come up with ways to defend it.
Correction – abortions within 14 weeks of conception have been legal in Romania since 1989 (the movie was obviously based earlier than that). My point still stands.
Fuck, wrong bitch.