Hammer-philia

For those of you who know what i'm talking about... Writing essays is hard work. The way I do it is not so efficient, i'm beginning to realize. First I reap, and reap, and reap for information. But what to do with all of that info? One has to store the good quotes somewhere, right? What I end up doing is just riling off anything on my brain, for about 20 pages of maddening messiness.