- Acknowledge that an English paper, especially Fiction, has never intimidated you or created anxiety in you this way. 
- Get out of denial. 
- Remember that you are peer mentoring for this professor next year and cringe upon realization that stakes feel high. 
- Read source. 
- Wander around house, eat berries, and make a list about the paper rather than actually writing, claiming that these activities let the source "marinate" in your brain. 
- Flip through vegan/vegetarian cookbook, look for potential dinner. Further "marinating." 
- Sit in bed and think. 
- Open Word Document. 
- Stare. 
- Stop writing list as to stare uninterrupted at Word Document. 
         mar 17 2010 ∞
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