Jason Maselli 9/16/19
These blank periods that continuously occur make me have negative feelings about writing because I know these blank periods will happen. Knowing the periods of nothing will occur makes me not want to write which only increase the possibility and duration of a blank period, and when they get longer it also increases the chance of my mind wandering so not only do I have to think of what I have to write, I also have to maintain my focus as well. These periods of time are really unpleasant since it is really just me sitting there staring at the screen or paper thinking of what I should write down and during this process I am only thinking of how to write the section I’m thinking about which is about three sentences or less. This is a problem since I don’t really think of what I’m writing about at length as in how to develop it further on in the paper. This makes the problem worse since I could be halfway through writing something and I cant build off of it in any way which means I would have to either start over or find something else that would tie into what I just wrote. This one thing that is very present when I write makes me not want to write since it’s hard to write something when you know it could take hours to just start writing something so it wouldn’t even matter if I do it earlier because thinking of what to write is still an issue. Now I’m not saying I dislike writing just for this reason because that’s not really the best reason not to like something. It just makes it harder to like writing or at least not be unhappy about it. I am aware writing is a process and that process is basically the same for what ever is being written and thinking of what to write is the first and hardest step no matter how many times you’ve wrote an essay. I remember I had to write this career essay during senior year of high school and it was basically give three reasons why you want to do this, evidence to support those reasons and a counter argument along with introduction and conclusion paragraphs. The typical essay set up right and the teacher had us do it in steps to make it easier which basically gave us a frame to fit everything or something close to that and honestly I think it took longer for me to do that then this. We still had to gather evidence, stats write sentences. All we had were the ideas we had to support but we still had to choose what we wanted to put down so it fits well in our essay and how to put it in and there was another blank period longer then what I had for this. It doesn’t matter if I start early or have a frame set they will still happen and continue to happen.
