On+Writing

On Writing By: Sara Chaude Mrs. Laurencot Block five The Essay __On Writing__ helped me and didn’t help me in various ways. For example, this story helped me find ways to keep my mind on task with my work like closing all windows except your essay so you don’t get easily distracted from writing your story. Another way that it helped me was that it taught me if you are having writers blocked, which is when you are at a certain point of your story, but can’t come up with anymore ideas to keep typing your story, you should leave the computer for a little while, take a break, and come back to it with a clear and rested mind which will help you think of new ideas for your story. On writing, bored me a little bit because it didn’t really go fluently together, it was like the author just threw in as many ideas as he could, and in the process tried to make it as funny as he could so that we would enjoy reading it. However, it didn’t work out that way, because there was so many ideas thrown into the essay that it got overwhelming and boring to the point where I was asking myself what can I find in here that will actually teach me how to write a good short story and not just tell me or show me ideas for it. Writing to me can be very difficult to me sometimes because I get thing called writers block a lot and have trouble thinking of new ideas once I get stuck. However, what I usually do when I can’t think of anything else to write I usually save my work and go take a nap or watch some TV to clear my head, and in a few hours or so come back to it and use my refreshed brain to think of new ideas for my short story. Other than getting writers block I usually do a pretty good job on my short stories, sometimes I might wait till last minute to do them, however, this sometimes helps me because I feel the need to hurry, which makes my brain think quicker and helps me get out my ideas sooner than I would if I were to take my time writing the essay because then I would get easily distracted. This essay taught me some new tricks that I never thought of before and also gave me good ideas for short stories like writing about embarrassing moments, or making connections from your short story that you are writing to your daily life in the real world. Even though the short story called __On Writing__ bored me, it still gave me a thousand ideas on what to write my short story about and gave me a few pointers on how I can get my essay done quicker and easier without getting frustrated. chaude home