From a conversation, to a memorandum, to a fluffy fictional story, writing can expand beyond the simple world of communication. Yet, for me, there is nothing simple to expressing myself in writing. Writing a mere paragraph takes me an extensive amount of time to formulate, let alone perfect. Don't even get me started on the obstacles posed by a full-blown essay. I normally spend hours of staring at a computer screen deciding if I should just take the zero. But somehow, I always decide to give it a try.
Ironically, the introduction to my paper takes me the most time. Once the essay is started, I can establish the actual meat of the paper at a quicker pace; although, it is never perfect or near where it should be. Most of the time my pesky word counts are met only because I repeat myself seven sentences in a row. The tiding process for my paper proves yet again to be another challenging task for me. Everything already written is usually a jumbled mess with plenty of fragments scattered throughout. The lengths of my sentences don't vary too much and actually often have too many words that are unnecessary. Basically, my process is often extremely time consuming and messy but with the grace of God it gets finished.
I am certainly not a person who likes to write essays, for that matter, write anything at all. The writing that consumes my everyday life revolves around the millennial ways of social media posts and obviously texting. At the same time, unfortunately I am forced to write very formal memorandums for ROTC; they're heavily structured and can only be written in literally one way because that's the military for you. Not going to lie, but these memorandums do cause me much stress and count heavily for my grade in the class. Not to mention, with a military future those memorandums are going to stay with me for quite a while.
When I write it is usually for a purpose- as a college student it is always, I mean always, for a grade. I write just to stay afloat in my classes. I don’t think I write well and it takes me more time then I wish it did, so I would never willing take up a blog or any kind of written outlet. I see writing as a frustrating task that involves an exponential amount of hassles. I've never needed to write an essay for school that wasn't stressed by the teachers because it was such a big grade. One essay for this class, one essay for that class, another for this class- it is all annoying to me because it brings me no joy when they're stressed about.
I know many of my weaknesses when it comes to writing and I look forward to hopefully strengthening them over the course of this class, maybe then I'd enjoy writing just a little more. ;)
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