An Eternal Struggle

An eternal struggle. Yes, that's what i feel when I get a new assignment and I need to put my thoughts down on paper. Writing a paper requires a lot of time, interest, understanding and creativity. You need to organize all of your thoughts and get them into a structured form. Everything I think sounds so much better in my head than it looks on the paper. I know what I am thinking, the trick is to write it in a way that makes other people understand me. 

But I do not fear, it's usually not an eternal struggle. There happens to be some solutions, even for me. Sondra Perl argues that, "it's a good thing when people don't wait to write until they know everything they want to say" - rather, she wants writers to use the clarifying power of the act of writing itself to help them figure out what they want to say. (Perl,  ) This is actually one of the best tips I have received in relation to writing. It is more helpful to have three messy pages with scrabbling, than to have nothing at all. In my English class, we also read about a women called Anne Lamott, the author of "Shitty First Drafts". She argued that, "very few writers know what they are doing until they've done it". (Lamott, 301) Something tells me that Perl and Lament have a lot in common. For my first assignment in college, I handed in four drafts. I think I could have handed in even more drafts because every new draft became better than the previous one. So I agree with both Perl and Lamott, just write, don't sit there like I've been doing with this post for about an hour.

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