H809-20. Nightmare

I have cut down my original ambitious outline to just two theories, and still I am running into trouble with the word count. I have just started discussing the second theory and the paper is almost 1500 words long! This was after I ruthlessly chopped up the already tiny bit of background of sociocultural theories I felt able to get away with.

It is really difficult to write a good paper while panicking about the word count. It makes you second guess every single word you put on the page and seriously interrupts the flow of ideas. I am spending most of my time trying to pare down previously written paragraphs to free up space.