Man, nothing throws a kink in your writing life like a major paper. \u00a0This semester, I’ve got the mother of all undergraduate papers to write–the CAPSTONE.<\/p>\n
Interestingly enough, I’ve been having a lot of fun with mine. \u00a0A lot.<\/em> I’ll spare you the gory details, but basically my capstone is a statistical study of the effects of Israeli politics on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, specifically whether Israeli political fragmentation leads to increases in the level of conflict. \u00a0One of these days, I’ll get around to showing you the tables, because they are fairly compelling.<\/p>\n Well, on Monday, the rough draft was due–the complete rough draft. \u00a0Minimum: 20 pages. \u00a0Professor Christensen doesn’t care how you get your paper in, though, so long as it’s on his desk when he shows up for work Tuesday morning. \u00a0So basically, I locked myself in the SWKT and wrote the last half of the thing in the TA office. \u00a0The building closed, but around midnight I finished the thing and slipped it into the dropbox! \u00a0Huzzah!<\/p>\n And now that my capstone is complete (at least, the first draft), you have NO IDEA how liberated I feel! \u00a0It’s awesome!<\/em> Like, I actually have free time right now! \u00a0It’s been so long, I’ve totally forgotten what that feels like. \u00a0Freedom!<\/p>\n And now that I look back on the last three weeks of my writing, all I can say is ouch.<\/p>\n I’ve hardly worked on either of my novels at all these past two weeks. \u00a0The 7-day word counts have been steadily dwindling, and last week it actually hit zero. \u00a0Yikes! \u00a0I don’t think that’s happened since…since finals last semester or something.<\/p>\n Well, I’m going to fix that! \u00a0Yesterday, I churned through about 2.5k words in the revision of Genesis Earth<\/em>, and I plan to keep it up all this week until school starts beating me up again. \u00a0That probably won’t be until after Thanksgiving, which gives me just enough time to finish this revision.<\/p>\n Hopefully, this week I’ll be able to do at least 1.5k daily. \u00a0It’s going to take hard work to build momentum again, but once I’m up and running, finishing this beast shouldn’t be hard. \u00a0Then I can devote more time to finishing the current incarnation of Bringing Stella Home,<\/em> which should have been finished long ago.<\/p>\n And then, finally…something new!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Man, nothing throws a kink in your writing life like a major paper. \u00a0This semester, I’ve got the mother of all undergraduate papers to write–the CAPSTONE. 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