Blog 4 -Serena Cecere

My Snapshot ideas honestly just came to me randomly.  I would see things that would just trigger me, and inspire me or intrigue me, so I'd write about it. Although, at first I tried to write with the topic of things that I feared and things that ticked me off, I noticed as I would sit down to write, often, random ideas would spring about my mind that were solid thoughts, but not related to my topic, so I would write them despite that.  I did also however get inspired by TV shows for some of my passages, like Scandal or Criminal Minds, those helped me find a way to describe my irrational fear of being stalked.  When I made my first draft, I wasn't sure I was even doing it right because my peers papers were entirely different, but after my meeting with my teacher, she said it was basically right on point. Even still, a lot of my ideas I don't really know if they're good for this paper, but I've come to really like all my excerpts so I'm going to hope they work. Actually, now that I think about it, there was one piece in my paper, a poem, I actually wrote when I was going through some stuff with a boy I liked a few months back, and I loved that poem, so I put that in my paper, well after i fixed it up a little bit.
There were also a lot of ideas I wrote that I ended up taking out of my paper or revising to the point the same message was delivered, but an entire different piece transpired. I did that because in my first draft I put together the ideas I wanted to portray but didn't actually write a good piece, so later in my drafting, I either found better ways to get my message across, or, if that wasn't working for me, I just found better ideas.   Which for me, is never really an issue because my minds always racing 100 miles per hour. That's basically it, I didn't have some formal formatting or some organized thought pattern to getting my Snapshots, I just freehanded it, and went with my gut on a lot of pieces.