Okay, so I'm taking this senior writing course at my school and I've discovered that it takes me hours to produce one essay...ONE essay... But at school, we've done these essay exams where we have to do prewriting, write an essay, and revise it all in a half hour. So I've found that I do surprisingly well under pressure; on all of the essay exams I have finished on time, and the essays have been not too shabby for 30-minute essays. But I can't seem to put myself under that same pressure when I'm at home. The fact that I have hours to waste on this when I'm at home just ruins the "You have no time to slow-poke, just do it" spirit of the 30-minute essay. I tell myself that I've got 30 minutes to produce an essay, I'll even set a timer. But then I'll spend 15 minutes just thinking of a topic, another 15 minutes thinking of how I want to arrange my thoughts, and before I know it...my half hour is up and I haven't even started writing the actual draft. I HATE IT! Note to self: Stop trying to do 30-minute essays at home -- it's a waste of your time and it's darn near impossible...well for you at least. I guess it's good that I can't write a 30-minute essay at home...Mrs. Pennington says that she doesn't expect 30-minute essays to be very good because you're in a rush...I don't want my essays to be like that...the only reason why I want to do 30-minute essays at home is because the class ends in two days and I still have 3 essays to write, plus revisions to make for the portfolio...which is due in two days. (well technically I can turn it in next week but I want to turn it in in two days..I can't deal with this stuff anymore. Besides, I'm not always going to have an extra week to turn my stuff in so I should probably push myself to get it done.) *pulls hair out in massive clumps* This is really not a good time to have writer's block, let me tell ya...I wonder if Adam has ever written a 30-minute essay. I bet ya his was good..