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[sentientfiction]

Woe. I am full of woe. I have yet an another essay crisis and although the planning stage has gone amazingly well thanks to some wonderful friends and some hard work, now the angst and woe has struck. I still have time to write the continuous prose part, that which I find the hardest, but I have far too much material and it's the sort of the essay

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[necaris]

If it's causing you woe, then by definition it's not trivial - *hugs*!

[sentientfiction]

Thank you *hugs*. A moment ago I had started on a particularly difficult section and have just abandoned it in favour of the far more sensible solution of tackling the shortest and easiest one first! Hopefully, it will ease me into the essay a little. At least that is the woe tackling plan.

[mentalfirewall]

At least having apportioned words you wont get to the end and then have to do a mammoth ammount of editing!

[sentientfiction]

That's if I can stick to them! I still have too much material and my word limits are awfully tight. I have to work this way though because editing and I just don't function together.

Re: *good luck hugs*

[sentientfiction]

Thank you for the hugs and luck. The proportion method was suggested to me by a dyslexia tutor, for I am very dyslexic and thus have to have very organised working methods but somehow it had never occurred to me to allocate word limits to sections/paragraphs like this. It's hard but it really helps.

The two paintings are Camille Pissarro's View from my Window, Eragny and J.M.W.Turner's Walton Bridges (the one from the Lloyd Collection). It's a private collection so you won't be able to find it online due to copyright issues, but if you're really interested I can email you a photo that a naughty friend of mine managed to take very stealthily. No photographs or reproductions of the Turner are allowed so it's impossible to find and I've had to practically write my essay in the Ashmolean.

Re: *good luck hugs*

[sentientfiction]

The Pissarro is everywhere on the net...but are you sure you got the right version of Walton Bridges I just couldn't find it anywhere...?

[elcampo]

*sympathy*

The Brookes word limits are bloody silly. Every time I have a piece of coursework I have to edit down from 1000+ words over. It's had be screaming and throwing things on occassion :P

So no, word limit angst is not trivial - you're allowed to be upset by it :) - and at least your woe will drive you to keep doing really really well, 'cos from what I can see you're kicking ass at the minute.

[sentientfiction]

Awwww. Thank you, you are very sweet. It's true their word limits are infuriating but they do get better in the second year apparently...so I don't know why they're so tight on your course.

[elcampo]

I reckon it's 'cos they're too lazy to read long answers... or maybe Brookes just isn't paying their lecturers enough.

[tyasante]

Hmm, I would suggest actually walking away from the whole thing for a moment. Just do something different for a while, and then when you come back try jotting down the four or five most important facts/arguements that you want to get across. The others are bonus material so if you finish the four or five (ideally 3 or 4, but I reckon this is slightly more high level than GCSE coursework) main points, and still have some words left, you can suggest in your conclusion that the other points not touched upon could be an excellent point to base further research on.

[notes time] If you've not already done so, walk away from it. If you have, then welcome back to it and you'll be fine. It's not too much material, it's a very well researched project!

[tyasante]

Also, I echo elcampo - My word limits are usually 1200, and my previous uni course trained me to write 3000+. I feel your pain. It's not trivial - as my own LJ shows, it can be an incredibly frustrating thing which is why walking away and doing something else is my favourite method of dealing with it. :)

[sentientfiction]

Thank you. I have been writing all evening and I think I am about to take your advice and walk away, though probably just to bed which I don't think is quite what you had in mind ;) I just don't feel I have time to take breaks at the moment with the deadline looming and me being such a slow worker. Maybe, that's part of the problem?