This paper absolutely stinks

[pegkerr]

It is not coalescing at all. I didn't get anything coherent finished despite working on it all weekend, and I am just about in despair. I won't be going to any karate classes until I get it done, which is just making me crankier.

I keep forcibly telling myself that it is unlikely that the audience will throw tomatoes.

This is undoubtedly true, but helps only a little bit.

Comments

[cathschaffstump.livejournal.com]

The outline looked solid, Peg.

Would it help you to talk it through from the outline? That helps me some times.

See you very soon.

Catherine

[tassie-gal.livejournal.com]

**HUGS**
Maybe going to karate will help you work through the block by giving your brain something else to think about for awhile to let the the subconcious work?

[diatryma.livejournal.com]

I'm working on the Doom Chapter (rather, I am done for today and cannot work from home, and am therefore feeling guilty about it) so I sympathize. It's no fun at all.

[amandageist.livejournal.com]

No, you're right, it's totally the wrong season for tomatoes.

Is there any way to make the problem you're having, part of what you explore..? I don't know if that's applicable to what you're doing, but if you can't comment on trends, maybe you can comment on the fact that despite clear parallels, there *are* no dependable commonalities, or something? Basic marketing principle: if you don't have what you thought you have to sell, sell what you *do* have.

Or not. Sympathies; that's an awful position and a terrible feeling. For me, it's a regular phase of anything I write, and I usually find that it precedes the little glimmerings of connection that presage coalescing. Or congealing, in difficult cases. Much good luck wishes from here.

~Amanda

[bordergold.livejournal.com]

if your misery wants a bit of company, my paper stinks too. The difference is that it's for a class I'm already doing only mediocre in, and takes up a substantial portion of my grade. so. it could be worse :)