Getting in my own way

I have a paper I need to rewrite and I feel like I don't even know where to start with it. Part of the problem is that the way I approached the draft was the completely wrong way to do the paper. The reason I did this was I don't like the type of paper it is, the focus is on theory and what feels to me like quibbling about defining things that are still changing. I feel like what I have to do is hanging over my head and so instead of writing it and getting it over with I'm worry about it. It doesn't help that I haven't been sleeping well lately and so even though I sleep never manage to feel rested.

I know a lot of this is just the end of the semester nerves, but they're currently hitting me hard. Does anyone have any advice for getting past your own hangups for papers?

I've written things like this before so I should be able to manage this, I'm just stuck and feel like all that's in front of me is a brick wall.

My next entry I'm going to talk about two books that I'm just finishing and I can do this. Thank you for any thoughts or just taking the time to read this.