Dude, twenty pages is a lot. How do people ever write books? And this is the adaptation paper, too. I bet I’ve written more than twenty pages all together about adaptation, between entries here and in my notebook. Yet when I try to make it coherent and support a thesis, rather then, “hey, that’s a really awesome idea!” it doesn’t work. Grr. Also, the paper used to be about Bride and Prejudice<\/i>, and now it’s more about adaptation, which is fine–but it feels like two papers instead of one. I dunno. I’m at sixteen pages, and I don’t think I can write any more tonight. I know I’ve got another paragraph or so for sure to go in the adaptation part, but the B&P<\/i> part feels very…random and unclear, mostly because since I moved the focus to adaptation, it doesn’t seem to fit anymore. It’s not necessarily the best example of what I’m trying to convey, but I don’t have time to go find a better example and analyze it. And they want me to publish this thing. Yeah, right. I’ll be glad just to get it turned in.<\/p>\n
I decided I’m not a fan of this needing-to-have-a-point-when-I-write thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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