Sunday, September 12, 2010

Writing Habits?

            When it comes to writing I've always had trouble figuring out what works best for me, morning or night, quiet or noisy, but trying out different environments to write in for this assignment actually helped me what works best. For my first essay I wrote it early in the morning, on my laptop, in the silence of my room. I realized how fast I wrote and how much I could actually concentrate on the assignment at hand. The thoughts just flew from my brain to my fingertips to the computer screen in a matter of seconds. My second essay I decided to write at night in my tiny dorm room with my roommate present and the television playing quietly but present in the background. It took me much longer to write this because I found myself getting easily distracted by Family Guy or Facebook. Trying hard not to fall asleep on the keys, I managed to finish the paper after a couple of struggling hours. The third essay I wrote at night in my common room on a fresh, college-ruled piece of paper, which I then transferred to my computer screen. I found this to be the easiest to write because I had absolutely no distractions what so ever, besides the occasional hello from a friend who lives on my floor. I got everything that I need to say down on paper without the computer auto-correcting my words and the feeling that I just needed to fill the page without using size 20 font.

1 comment:

  1. Good reflection, Taylor. Strangely, this picture sort of looks like me when I'm writing...

    --NH

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