AIBU if you had 600 words to write tonight...

[seenna]

Would you be screwed and find that number daunting? I am able to commit the entire evening/night to this essay but am getting anxious. Typically I like to give myself only 500 words a day to write but I fancied extending my Christmas break a little bit longer. I've written 400 today so far. Really kicking myself for not starting earlier!

Well you’ve written about 10% of that here! Get cracking, you can do it.

Get off Mumsnet and stop procrastinating!
600 words is not actually that much if the ideas are flowing.
Seriously, get on with it 😜

No, 600 is easily doable assuming I know what I'm going to write about.

If it makes you feel better, I have 3000 due in on tuesday morning. I don't feel like doing it now, I figure I'll do it on monday...

Seriously? 600 words is nothing. Try writing a 20000 word dissertation in a month because of a university cock up.

Of course it's possible. Get off mums net and crack on.

Not a problem for me unless I had to hand it in straight away, I need to be able to proofread the next day.

I promise you it's doable, I wrote over 1000 words last Saturday.

600 words is not a long essay - you've done 400 already - 200 more isn't much at all. Dig deep and go for it! You'll feel great when it's done.

It’ll be ok- I always worry, and then end up over the word count!

Okay, feel slightly better. I'm a perfectionist so agonise over literally every word which really drags things out.

600 words is really not a problem...

600 is nothing, just a few paragraphs. You could knock that out in half an hour

I still have a 1000 words to write tomorrow and Monday.

I’ve got 3000 words to do by next Monday really wanted to get lots done today managed 250 👎 going to library tomo hoping I will churn a 1000 out in a day!
Good luck op

You should just get words down. The time to agonise over finding the perfect wording is when you have a completed draft.

Does anyone know of any post-bureaucratic organisations? Really struggling to find case studies. Ignore me if not.

In English lit exams at university you were expected to write 1,000 words in an hour and be quote specific.

I procrastinated writing my thesis and ended up putting myself in the position of having to write 4,000 words a day to meet the deadline. That was, um, interesting.

600 words is not very much at all. Writing a 200 word abstract for a conference takes me about 30 mins. As long as you have a structure to what you want to say, if shouldn't take more than a couple of hours. If you get off MN of course

Assuming it’s on something I know something about I could knock it out in under an hour easily.

I'd really struggle to get 600 words down. Have you made a plan or mind map for your essay?

600 words is about a page and a half of a4. Easily doable. Starting is the hardest part!

Your post is 62 words. Just write 4 paragraphs and you are done.

Yeah I've always been to churn it out in exams but essays bring out the worst in me.

In my experience, you will procrastinate and freak out about it being impossible, and then somehow, it will be done. I know I spent about 100 times the energy it took to complete my essays on avoiding them and getting anxious. But, I always got them done on time. Funny old creatures we are.

@seenna
Stop being a perfectionist and just get words on paper.
Polish it up at the end.