Labors of love...

So it took almost an hour, but one of my four essays for Stanford is now within the requested character count (another one probably is, but I haven't checked). It's crazy how difficult it is to do something that seems so simple...and it's funny, because with things like NaNoWriMo, my problem was adding words, not taking them away! The essay actually changed a great deal (at least I think it did) but I hadn't really liked it much to begin with (though dad says it's wonderful). Once I've decided to like it, I might post it here for others to look over, but I've been doing that with a few other essays and everyone else seems too busy to comment...not that I don't understand; heaven knows how much we're expected to do between now and December.

The next essay I'm tackling is the one I wrote about National Novel Writing Month. After I've got that down, I think I'm going off to study more chemistry for the insane test that starts tomorrow. Unfortunately, a bunch of the things I don't remember (such as conversions) are in the first chapter. Who needs to know how many micrograms are in a teragram, anyway?

(And Luke, if you're interested -- I got it under 1600 without deleting spaces! But it's not the MUN one, since that one just isn't very good and I think I'm rewriting it completely.)

EDIT: I got the NaNo one under the limit too! Again, took out lots of things I was sure were necessary...but I think I'm learning to be a better writer because of this.