To me writing is like a nagging chore. I never want to do it so I just hold it off until the very last minute and somewhat just throw it together and make it work. I have never really been one to just write for the fun of it, it seems like every time I am being graded on my work. That is the part of writing that gets me the most. I could talk for hours but when it comes to putting it down on paper in the perfect grammatical format, with detail and transition words, and all of that good stuff I start to get anxious and appalled. I like to write about things that interest me, but when I am given a topic and an allotted amount of time to work with, such as FCAT writes or the ACT, it makes me not enjoy writing overall. In the past I have had times that I was so confident about what I wrote and I couldn’t wait to turn it in and show my teacher my work, but then when I got it back my grade would not reflect the effort that I thought I put into. That is one of the main reasons that I look at writing as a chore because it is not satisfying to me. I get somewhat discouraged when I see other people writing awesome stories and turning in great papers. I know I could do that as well but it doesn’t come very naturally for me. I am more of a talker than a writer.
I get what you’re saying, I could talk until my jaw fell off if someone allowed it but making coherent thoughts on paper and following all of the rules of writing that you’ve learned as a student is a whole other story. I really liked the way your phrased it, “like a nagging chore” it’s like you know you have to do it but you don’t want to. Like cleaning your room, you tell yourself that you’re going to do it but you never really do until you know you absolutely have to. And then once you do and you put all this work and effort into it someone finds something wrong with it and it’s suddenly not as good as you thought it was any more. That crushing feeling will turn anyone off from doing something.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with you 100% Jenna. I would much rather do oral presentations then write papers. I too, would push back my assigned papers until due time. Just because I never found the pleasure in writing. Even when i was younger when I was assigned journal entries, I would wait the night before to do them. I would take talking over writing and day, just because that's my cup of tea. The next time I have a huge assignment due, I'll ask the professor to let me just do it orally. I hope they say yes!
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