Wake up -- time to die.
Mar. 12th, 2007 11:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swan_towerRuthless cutting of my paper this morning removed three hundred words or so, pulling me back from the rapidly-approaching wall that is the length limit for a conference. (I made it to 85% of the way done by bedtime; now I'm hovering just north of 75%.) Will this be enough space? Probably not. But at least I bought myself a tiny bit of breathing room.
I need to step back and let it compost a bit more, though, so I can figure out the most efficient way to organize this last section. It would be easy to bog down in detailed textual analysis, but I don't have that luxury. Broad patterns only, thank you, analysis-brain. We have approximately 4000 words to play with, and no more. And no, just speaking more quickly isn't an acceptable answer; we'll lose our audience and confuse everybody. We must be succinct. You do know what "succinct" means, right?
Don't answer that.
I need to step back and let it compost a bit more, though, so I can figure out the most efficient way to organize this last section. It would be easy to bog down in detailed textual analysis, but I don't have that luxury. Broad patterns only, thank you, analysis-brain. We have approximately 4000 words to play with, and no more. And no, just speaking more quickly isn't an acceptable answer; we'll lose our audience and confuse everybody. We must be succinct. You do know what "succinct" means, right?
Don't answer that.
