Lee Jenna Tyler's List: procrastination saves

• • Someone went further and adding task lighting to the bottom of the shelves.  That way more storage and light is being added into the space.  

• hree most important points o
• en start listing specific examples that prove each of your three points on the paper.
• ill support your thesi
• irginia Woolf once compared this process to fishing. You throw a line in the river and wait to see what comes.
• rite the scene from the novel that interests you.
• t doesn't matter where you start a novel because all the scenes and passages can be re-organized into the right sequence later.
• r ending,
• opening.
• a scene somewhere in the middle.
• John Irving writes his ending first, a
• here is nothing wrong with going straight to the heart of things. It will save you time with your essay because you will need to find your thesis statement
• Often the hardest part of writing an essay is figuring out just what that statement is. And often one of your three main points is your thesis.
• ictate your most interesting scene into a tape recorder. You can do the same thing with your three main points.

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• Sally Chippendale: 1000 words per day and don’t start later than 10am. If you are blocked move straight on to the next scene. If you have children put their favorite tv show on and neglect them for an hour and a half. I make one decent coffee beforehand; that is my only set up requirement/custom that I allow myself. I printed out and pinned above my desk one long excel spreadsheet detailing each scene in one sentence, headings included  day, characters, action, reason. Then highlight each line when complete, for satisfaction value.