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I still have a little more work to do on it, one last line edit, before I hand it in. Today's edit will pretty much just be a 'comma-watch' as my editor puts it. She's picked up how comma-happy I am in extended works (I sprinkle them liberally amongst the words like fairy-dust!) and we spent quite a lot of time last night just sharp-shooting commas.

We were at it so late that she wound up crashing here last night, and I'm just waiting for her to wake up so I can feed her some strong tea and we can get back into it again.

Honestly, I've had it up to my eye-teeth with this piece. It's been a constant gear grinding in the back of my mind for the last three months and it wasn't my first choice of subject. Unfortunately I had to abandon the project I was really passionate about for logistical reasons. SO I fell back to plan B and I've written, and rewritten, and reworked and edited and added to this piece constantly ever since. I'm fed up with it. I see the words inside my head when I close my eyes.

I'd be happy to just hand it in as-is and get it out of my hair. At least I'd pass. But this is, hands down, THE most important assignment I'll do in my time at uni. I've mentioned before that it's a capstone unit, so this piece is supposed to be the crowning glory I walk away from this degree with (except I still have a make-up year to go).

This assignment is worth SIX times what most other assignments are worth, academically speaking. The unit it's for is weighted at three times the importance of a standard unit. Also, most standard units have two assignments per semester whereas this unit just has the one. It really is a monster. This submission make or breaks your GPA, and mines looking pretty healthy at the moment, I'd like to keep it that way.

But I just can't stomach the thought of any more effort going into this thing. I'm over it. I'm sick of it. I've learned what I can from it, which is that I don't have the skills to write for any length. Which is fine for me. My natural writing niche is short articles anyway.