When I sit and write it takes hours until the writing product is finished. Whether I am sending an email; which takes about an hour, to writing a major term paper; which would usually take about seven hours, the hardest and longest part is actually starting. We all have a spot in our home or at school where we like to sit and work. Its comfortable enough to sit for a few hours without physically straining yourself and where you can have all your notes organized in your own unique system. For myself, I like a wide desk where I can neatly place all my textbooks, notebooks, and papers I am using to write my paper. But like I said, the hardest part is usually how to start.
I think this happens to all of us in one way or another. You sit down at …show more content…
The hardest thing for me to write is an introduction. As both a writer and a person I try to be a perfectionist with everything I do. When writing a beginning, I try to plan every brilliant thing through the rest of the essay to match what I am trying to say in the introduction. However, I never come close to saying something brilliant in the essay and the introduction is always awkward or poorly worded. I become stuck on every sentence thinking that they have to fit like perfect puzzles pieces. The first sentence is always the worst. It usually takes about ten minutes to squeeze out the first sentence. This evolves about five different sentences being written and four of them being deleted and then after the first sentence is established, I am stuck doing the same thing for the next sentence. I delay in any way I know how. I get up look out my window maybe even get a snack if I’m hungry. I convince myself that I’m brainstorming, which I would do for the first thirty-five seconds, and then focus my attention somewhere else. After sometime I would return to my seat. And begin hacking away. Writing and erasing because the next sentence would clash with the previous one. After the contortion act is over and thirty minutes have passed I have written a decent introduction. The same is for the rest of the of the essay. I feel that there is evidence of this in the last assignment I turned
I think this happens to all of us in one way or another. You sit down at …show more content…
The hardest thing for me to write is an introduction. As both a writer and a person I try to be a perfectionist with everything I do. When writing a beginning, I try to plan every brilliant thing through the rest of the essay to match what I am trying to say in the introduction. However, I never come close to saying something brilliant in the essay and the introduction is always awkward or poorly worded. I become stuck on every sentence thinking that they have to fit like perfect puzzles pieces. The first sentence is always the worst. It usually takes about ten minutes to squeeze out the first sentence. This evolves about five different sentences being written and four of them being deleted and then after the first sentence is established, I am stuck doing the same thing for the next sentence. I delay in any way I know how. I get up look out my window maybe even get a snack if I’m hungry. I convince myself that I’m brainstorming, which I would do for the first thirty-five seconds, and then focus my attention somewhere else. After sometime I would return to my seat. And begin hacking away. Writing and erasing because the next sentence would clash with the previous one. After the contortion act is over and thirty minutes have passed I have written a decent introduction. The same is for the rest of the of the essay. I feel that there is evidence of this in the last assignment I turned