Writing.. and I.

Writing and I, haven't ever got along. Well not really well I'd say. When I am given a writing assignment, in my head before i sit down to write something, writing sounds like the most awful thing i could ever have to do with an hour or two of my day. For example, this assignment. I laid around all day dreading of going to the computer and writing this down, when in reality, i love to write.

I love sitting down, and pouring my ideas out onto paper. In the past i have wrote about reality (how I'm feeling/events going on at the moment) fictional stories, that usually tend to lead nowhere but help me clear my head, or even letters to people saying everything i would or would have said to them had i gotten the chance. I love blogging and expressing my ideas in an unstructured do-it-how-I-want way.

I think that's what gets me. I don't like structure, because its almost as if it scares me. Having an outline of five paragraphs, with three body paragraphs, an intro, and a conclusion. I feel like i have to form my ideas to fit someone else's writing style, the way that they think a paper flows best. Then again, that's probably just my personality coming through.

Don't get me wrong I'm not the rebel type, i follow rules. (Obviously, otherwise all of my previous papers would be written in the format I feel like writing in, haha.) But I've never been the girl who has wanted to follow the crowd, and I've always wanted to do things my way, and no other. I hate being told what to do, and procrastinating is just in my blood. Despite these things, I think this class is going to greatly help me get over my fear of structured papers, so i can use the talent i already have for writing in full.

Now that wasn't so bad :)