<p>I have written or at least started most of my essays. On the ones I wrote a while back, I feel like I'm beating a dead horse. Like, I know they get better everytime I edit, but I have absolutely no motivation to read them again and again. I feel like I know exactly what they're going to say and don't read them that clearly.
This kind of carries over to the ones that I still need to write. I feel like I'm writing the same/similar things over and over and am having more and more trouble trying to find good things to say. I feel so redundant.
I'm also having problems focusing and continuing...the same, beating the dead horse kind of thing.
Anyway...thoughts? advice?</p>
<p>It sounds like some time away (if possible) from essays might be beneficial.</p>
<p>Perhaps the early essays are close to the best that they can be, such that the changes or incremental improvements you are making are just not worth your time and effort anymore (compared to other things you could be doing).</p>
<p>I've sent in my early essays already, actually. It's just this second round that's getting me. I've taken like a week away and it helped but it's not like I can just take a week off after every essay....</p>
<p>So now you are just working on the later set?</p>
<p>Do you have a daily schedule for working on the essays, a certain place to write them, a limit to the amount of time you will spend each day, etc.? If yes, perhaps a change of scenery/schedule would help. If no, perhaps establishing such a schedule would help.</p>
<p>Yes. They problem isn't really that I don't have time or that Iam procrastinating. Just everytime I sit down to do it, I can't. I work on them in my living room which is causing some issues, but theres no other computer I can use and I organize way better on the computer than by hand so I kind of need it.....</p>
<p>If you can't find a good place to work at home, try your library - I find it a lot easier to get stuff done in a quiet, boring environment where I'm not tempted by a 768kbs internet connection. If you can't find anything else to revise in your essay, then submit it unless you really think its a bad essay. In that case, I suggest you scrap it and start again. My general rule is when I can read through one of my papers once and find no important corrections, then its time to put it in the "Finished" pile. I had to write about 10 essays for apps, 2 of which I tore up and rewrote, and I found the product much better the second time around. </p>
<p>That said, there is such a thing as writer's block, ya know. In which case, all I can say is just write whatever comes to mind. You can always improve upon it later.</p>
<p>“I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning” ~Peter De Vries</p>
<p>“I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others” ~Moliere</p>
<p>Would it help to have someone you could talk to about an essay that is troubling you? I am thinking of you sitting down and just chatting about what you have in mind, and maybe jotting down a note or two.</p>