Thread:Autumnlibrarian16/@comment-38973390-20190331120228/@comment-38973390-20191115031015

the most daunting part about writing debate speeches (for me, at least) is the possibilty of completely misinterpreting everything or being a complete idiot with no idea about what they're talking about. To avoid that, I tend to try to fact check everything I write with at least two different sources but that usually makes me go down the rabbit hole of reading a ton of articles with very little writing of my speech; and once I'm ready to write, I find I'm having trouble synthesizing to effectively figure out which quotes to use that will directly fuel the argument

at this point, the fact is that my partner and I won't be able to go to the upcoming debate but that's okay. I'm trying to get the speeches done with anyway so we don't have an issue for the next one (which should be sometime in December?) and the ones later this year.

and now that I think about it tomorrow is the halfway point for the November, I should really begin studying rigorously for my subject test if I want that 800

it's getting late so I'll talk about my SoJ progress some other time (I've begun the trial in Khura'in, but haven't gotten much farther than the final prosecutor reveal)