Writing a Literary Research Paper

If you have thoroughly researched your topic, you should have plenty of information to share in your first draft. Relax. Your job at this point is just to get your ideas down on the page. You don't have to get everything perfect right from the start. Instead, write freely, exploring ideas, relating concepts, quoting sources, paraphrasing, making connections. Once you get your ideas on the page, you'll have time to work with them and shape them. Right now, you should just focus on expressing what you've learned about your topic and doing so in a way that makes your curiosity infectious.