Friday, May 5, 2023

Time and word count

 I'm still writing the grad school essays. There are two in particular that I've been banging my head against for days, mainly because my word count is too high, but also because I'm trying to make a really good previous essay I wrote fit into the word count. The word count is too high for all of my essays, but particularly those two. I am hopefully getting closer to them not being too high. I suppose this says something about my writing. You already knew this if you've been reading my blogs, but I have a hard time writing something short.

This would be fine, but I don't know how much time these are going to take, and I'm leaving for France in a week, so I've been putting just about everything else on hold, or reducing it to emergency sustenance levels. However, I only have so many hours of good writing in me, and they all happen in the morning, so especially when something comes up, like it did today, that has to get taken care of in the morning, it hurts extra. And I can get a lot more done when I'm well rested, so when I don't get enough sleep, like last night, it also hurts. This is one of the reasons I'm writing this now, in the afternoon. Yesterday I worked into the evening, perhaps because I'd gotten a good night of sleep, but today I was done by lunch. I knew I wasn't getting any more good writing out of myself, so I switched over to other tasks that need to get done before I leave, or in preparation for our trip.

OK, I'm on to the next thing now. Bonjour!

-Isaac

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