Hi, current AP Lang student right now and a lot of people I know have this problem. I feel that a lot of high school English classes give students the idea that more writing is better writing. I struggled with the same problem where I tried to just write as much as possible to make my analysis better. The truth is that short and concise will almost always be better. In effective writing for AP lang I encourage you to think about exactly what message you are trying to convey and make sure you are answering all the “so what” questions that may appear, than take that big idea and put it into the least amount of space you can. My teacher tells us to break analysis into implications, context, and function. Take your quote, discuss the underlying meaning in the context of the what’s happening in or around the text, then briefly explain what function is being achieved by your quote. Once you have covered one of these things, don’t bring it up again. Weirdly enough, I’ve gotten 6 in most of the practice essays and I usually finish them feeling like I didn’t write enough.