With the end of the semester comes holiday season, colder weather, and what? A ten page paper?!
In college sometimes in lieu of—or, unfortunately, in addition to—having a final exam you will be assigned a term paper, usually involving research. While these projects are usually assigned far in advance, they are pretty intimidating feats, so a process is definitely required to get through them.
First off, don't procrastinate, no matter how tempting it is. You don't always have to start writing your actual paper weeks in advance, but at least gather your thoughts and research materials. Once the deadline starts getting nearer and nearer, give yourself a week or a good few days to write the paper, depending on your own individual writing process. Like writing in big chunks? Prefer writing in smaller bits? Plan out a schedule for yourself so you know that you will have time to write your paper and edit it.
Even if you do like writing in large segments, don't let yourself use this as an excuse to save your paper for the day before it is due. Set a fake due date for yourself so you have time after you actually finish the paper to look it over.
Last but not least, just will yourself to get words on the paper. Editing is a crucial part of paper writing, so you can perfect your wording later. But if you don't even start, chances are your thoughts aren't going to get any clearer. So pull yourself together and open that word document. We've got some papers to write.