OVER 9000 SECONDS

Only longer if you sit here posting about it.

Too many variables. *Head asplode*

>1500

psh, i ate essays like that for breakfast back in college

so seriously i printed them out and are the paper copies

Use the cat in the hat and hop on pop as the two texts, and then make up some deep shit for the characters. Should take you about 6 hours.

OP here. I'm thinking about three hours.

the writing shouldn't take long, it's the taking notes and preparing properly that is time-consuming.

>>499105

1.) Get a bottle of liquor, listen to German techno
2.) Start writing essay
3.) ???
4.) Profit!

I already have lots of notes and stuff but haven't really planned on how to write it.

Can we reach consensus on saying about three hours?

>>499149
20 minutes. just knock back a glass of wine and put on some chilled music

>>499149
http://writeordie.drwicked.com/
Set yourself a word goal and time limit and go to town. Get that shit done.

>>499158

Haha oh wow thats good.

>>499158
What happens if you don't finish in time? I'm afraid to try it.

Such an essay takes me like 1 hour and a half maybe less depending on research. What're the texts? A level course?

>>499255

Yep A level. Much Ado About Nothing and A Streetcar Named Desire.

Depends on your writing style really. I use to spend 3 or 4 hours on the outline then like 30 minutes on the paper and another 15-20 minutes doing revisions for 1500 words. Now I just kind of write them off the top of my head dumping ideas into independent notepad files and 1,500 words with no outline takes about two hours heavily revising as I go along but still spending 15 to 20 minutes revising afterward. Its all about how much you write and how you approach essays.

If you're on a time constraint just do two short stories that emphasize character development or have completely contrasting MCs.

>>499141
Holy shit THIS!

>>499241
Your essay is completely erased and the site e-mails a withdraw-with-fail note to your teacher?

It would take me a long time to get it down to just 1500 words.

well I handed in about 5 essays in the two years i was doing A level English Lit, not to mention being kicked out of school for not working and in my opinion 4 hours with PLENTY of breaks.

I got a B

>>499318

Ok cool. Well I'm at 300 words now and I'm already kinda stuck as I'm writing off the top of my head. It's a first draft anyway so I don't mind if it needs to be revised thoroughly.

What's your target grade? Predicted me a D, I get Bs.

>>499368
>Predicted me a D, I get Bs.

I don't know what this means, but I think you deserve a D for it.

>>499368

I'm a predicted A, dang nabbit. No pressure right?

>>499241
It starts erasing your text character by character if you stop writing. It does give you a little leeway depending on the level you pick, and the box fades from white to red before it starts to erase. It's a decent motivator, though.

I can usually do these essays in a night (3-5 hours) but you're going to want to cite your texts and give examples of why the characters compare/contrast with eachother

>>499376
Predicted grades should be removed in my opinion. I enjoy literature though so I work my ass off even though I'm a better actor/director than writer. Still rather be a writer.

Well my advice for success in GCSE/Alevels's's is to read a study guide or listen to your teachers about how an essay or an exam answer is meant to be written. Then stay as far from that structure as worldly possible. Stay conversational (tho highbrow) and alliterate as much as you can.

Examiners have to trawl through shitloads of the same old answers, there no right or wrong really just ticked points of interest. So if you fire off on some mad, probably bullshit idea of the question and amuse them as much as possible then they'll keep on tickin' away.

Worked for me; two A*s and a B

>>499398

Yeah you're right, predicted grades are annoying.

I'm on 500 words now! Another update soon!

>1500 words
>Compare characters


It would take me 2 hours at the most.

Plan it. Off the top of your head is always easier, but there's a definite discrepancy in quality. If you can plan an essay down to the paragraph, you ultimately save time trying not to paw through the mess in your head and collating information into something ultimately cohesive.

About an hour to plan what you want to say, then find a few critics to back up what you want to say, along with one or two that oppose that you can counter with textual evidence. Examiners love that shit. Oh and 40minutes to one hour to type the thing out, with another 20min with revisions.

If it's due in two days or more: Do a very basic outline "II. Talk about X's Y" and such one morning. Later just write up a bunch of shit that goes along with your outline.
The next day just check everything on it and put in some references.

775 words! It's going really slow. Maybe I should just get off 4chan.