Good tips mostly, but as for turning in quality work...one sentence can be as powerful as a book depending on the author, and if you have to turn in an uninspiring work...why not bullshit your way through. I have had english teachers crying over stuff I wrote within hours prior to deadline.
My favorite tip: Use personal interview as a source. It saves loads of time, the subject gets an ego stroke, and the opinions are someone else's and you really can't take the blame for them.
Quality work is always inspired.
Drudgery is what is usually graded.
Learn and master the system!
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The sad thing is... as you get older you come to realize that you don't so much pilot your life, as you just try to hold on, in a screaming, defiant ball of white-knuckle anxious fury
