Trouble with Writing

  I always dreaded writing assignments in high school. Do I hate writing papers? No, not in the least. Am I a bad writer? Not really. As a matter of fact, I’ve always received very satisfactory grades on writing assignments. The problem with writing, for me, is starting a paper. Procrastinating is never an option for me when it comes to writing, because I know it will most definitely take some time for me to finish. Choosing the topic and main ideas of my paper was always a strenuous task for me. There seem to be so many different things to say and ways to start, that I feel overwhelmed. Even when the subject is predetermined, I still have a hard time writing. In high school, I would brainstorm with other students in my class, and it always seemed as if they could come up with an introduction much easier than I could. Not me, however. I would almost have one, but as I began to critique it myself, I would always think, “That’s not good enough,” or “I can do better than that.” It seemed like it would take forever just for me to come up good introduction to my paper. After the introduction is written, and my topic is finally “set in stone,” my ideas start to flow much easier than before. It is at this point that I am comfortable with my writing. I find it very easy after I have a map of my main ideas and bullet points drawn out to expand on those to add body to my paper. As long as my topic interests me, and I can get through constructing an introduction, then I have very little trouble writing a paper that makes sense and effectively gets my point across to the reader.