start again

[calimac]

Sustained only by some old notes, I've been writing what I thought was going to be the actual text of my presentation at an upcoming Tolkien conference. I know that I'll have only 20 minutes for this, but I started writing last week, intermixed with a lot of other activities, and I've just now gotten to the start of the main point and I already have 2,000 words.

This is how all my papers get to be an hour long. But I don't have that luxury this time. I have to back up and start again.

Comments

[nellorat.livejournal.com]

I sympathize! My response is usually to write the whole thing, edit one version for presentation, and then have the whole version for publication.

[chorale.livejournal.com]

I was at a symposium recently where the speakers only had 20 minutes apiece. Some of them solved their problem by speaking very rapidly. Best wishes for a successful edit.