The Breath Of Pressure

With deadline day slowly breathing down my neck, the pressure is starting to ramp up. I’ve got the majority of the Back To BASIC assignment complete, but I’ll be spending the most of this week getting my Picture This assignment up to scratch. It’s close to being finished, but the biggest task this week will be putting the Picture This assignment into the template as I’ve learnt the hard way a couple of times now that it takes a while. Because I’m so close to the deadline, I think it’s about time to start considering how the two assignments have worked out.

The main difference over these two assignments and the last one is the simple fact that there is two. I’ve had to balance a lot of my time between the two assignments and because one of the assignments is considerably larger I had to time plan accordingly. So let’s start with how the time planning has gone.

Simply put, a lot better. Last assignment I was panicking and getting all flustered because I couldn’t handle the size of the project and this time with focused time planning it’s gone a lot better. I started out by using Google Calendar but I’ve found that just printing off a blank template from there and writing on it has worked a lot better. While GC is really simple and flexible, I’ve come to realise that the immediacy of the good old pen and paper works a lot better when I’m constantly amending them.

I do feel though that it may look like from time plans that I’ve not planned small enough. I’ve used two monthly templates and nothing any smaller, and amended my weekly planning on to this. I’ve basically just been using a master document for each month, while when it comes to breaking down days I’ve used pieces of paper which most have unfortunately ended up in the bin… For future assignments I’ve got to remember to save these, no matter how scruffy and what state they are in.

I did however lose my way half way through the assignments. I became lost in a sea of time plans and work, and didn’t know where to continue from. I spent a while procrastinating so in future I’ve got to just crack on with it.

I’ve found it ten times easier writing a website plan this time, but I’m still having to edit things considerably. Being a writer at heart, I still have the habit of sticking in the odd flair adjective to make my work seem more interesting, and I have a habit of writing in too much detail. Usually I’m trying to keep the word count high instead of low. I did struggle to begin with to get my assignment down to 4500 words, but now I think I’ve cracked it. I’m slowly getting there with my word counts, and writing the content certainly helped me practice the skill of writing less.

Overall, apart from the odd pothole in the road, it’s been a fairly smooth ride.

As far as the road ahead and finishing off this assignment goes; it's going to be tough but I wouldn't give up this pressure for the world.