Have you ever been writing an essay, and you’ve been at it all day, and then you look back and you realize that although your first page with the thesis on it claims that you are writing about “cinematic influence and mise-en-scene in Evelyn Waugh’s early novels”, the REST of the paper seems to be saying that what you have actually written about is “modernism and the commodification of culture, with a weird sub-section on transit and identity, in Waugh’s early novels”?
How did that happen? It was so organic, I didn’t even notice the transition.
Dammit, now I have to reformulate my thesis. What a pain.
Plus, my forehead is really hot and my feet are really cold and my throat is really sore.
This does not bode well for essay #2, when I get around to it.
…….that totally just happened to me yesterday 🙂
What, while you were cleaning the kitchen?
My goodness, you’ve been a productive little bee. 😉
Has this ever happened to you?
Only ever time I ever wrote a paper.
I wonder if that will have changed now that my job consists of so much writing to a specific wordcount on a specific topic with a specific message or slant? I should write an essay on the next book I read and find out.
That happens to me all the time!
Good luck with the continued writing…
I’d start all out with a frisky little thesis and realize I’d written a paper on totally a different thing. Hell, sometimes it was on a different SUBJECT.
That’s why I sing. Hard to go off on a tangent that way.
I definitley feel your pain. I routinely write papers and then surprise myself w/ what I’ve written when I go back to edit it.
I am your paper yuckiness kindred spirit this week. Blah. Who wants to learn things, anyway?? 🙁
On a paper I wrote in high school, my prof commented: “You disproved your thesis.”
-DL