writing ritual.

before starting a monsterous project i make sure i have the proper attire on. i put on my favorite sweatpants and a tee. even when i work on the project every day for the next week, i wear those pants every time. i have to be comfortable. i snuggle into my bed with my laptop on my lap, laying against the wall that acts as a backboard to my bed. my "chillout" playlist is select right away, i need the perfect ambiance. i have to check up on my twitter feed, maybe chat a couple of people on facebook, getting their sympathy for how much work i have to get done. after all that is taken care of, i roll. i allow myself to get what needs to be done in one big chunk. once the essentials are done, i let the distractions begin once again. tweet a little, chat a little, maybe skype a little... then if i feel like more needs to be done, i finish it. i'm not scared of pulling an all nighter if it needs to be done, i always work better when i'm working with a close deadline, because i know there is no time for distractions. when doing my rhetorical analysis, first i annotated all the different methods of rhetoric the author used. then, i made sub categories and copy and pasted all the evidence in the text for those methods. once i finished that, i created paragraphs around the evidence, including them in different sentences. after that, i worked my intro and conclusion into all of it. i hope my methods worked....... i can not stop thinking about the kind of grade i am going to get. it's safe to say even though we turned in the assignment, we are still stressing pretty hard about it.