Blog #1

There are three main things I worry about when writing; paper length, flow of ideas, and quality of content. I don't know how many papers I've had to write where there was a certain number of pages or words needed in order to get a good grade, but it's safe to say I've struggled with meeting the required length on almost all of them. I constantly find myself trying to add extra sentences and filler words into my papers just to barely meet that length requirement. A lot of the time my paper turns out very bland because I’ve added so many filler sentences. I very frequently have trouble with my flow of ideas in papers as well. In high school I remember getting quite a few marks on my paper saying “this paragraph is ‘choppy’” or “these ideas don’t go together”. I usually have good ideas when I’m writing, I just struggle with putting them down on paper in a way that makes seems and flows well. Finally, I sometimes struggle with the quality of my writing. Like I said earlier, I often times have really good ideas, but I just can’t seem to word them and put them down on paper so that they sound good. It’s almost as if my brain is all over the place when I write, pulling ideas from every direction, but my hands don’t know how to put them down the right way. I’ve always tried to work on my writing problems, and I’ve definitely gotten better at it, but there is still room for improvement.