The 4 Stages of Writing [for Slackers]

1.) Planning

An outline of what you want to write is set. You spend a nice couple of hours creating a framework that you’re supposed to follow for whatever you’re going to write. Life is pretty good.

2.) Writing

While planning, you get a few ideas and write them down as quickly as possible. You get on a roll and if you continued at this feverish pace, you’ll finish in no time!

3.) Procrastination

Fuck it! That paper basically writes itself, I’m gonna go take a break and catch the Raptors game and get some beers!

4.) Panic!

When you begin writing it again, you realize that the wealth of ideas you had before didn’t exactly fill out the breadth requirements you needed. Now you’re completely fucked because you wasted the last two weeks dicking around since the rest of the paper was “only gonna take two hours.” Now you panic and write whatever is on your mind down, sounding repetitive, being redundant, and adjusting the margins to look like you wrote a lot more than you did.

Guess where I’m at right now?