Writer's block, woolly sock, wooden clock, big rock, Woodstock, writer's block. We all just loooove writing papers. Okay, well actually I do like writing papers. They give your mind a chance to throw-up all that info just building up, steaming, ready to gurgle out your ears. Not to mention, it's a break from the math; a chance for the mind to have a little creativity.
But the writing process... that's something to think about. Again, call me a weirdo, but I like it. I don't like all of it, but generally speaking, I actually do like it. For the last paper I wrote for instance, I was able to choose a topic of my choice. So naturally... I chose Frankenstein. What a story: suspense and something to think about(Frankenstein's monster was actually only a monster because everyone made him out to be that way; he really just wanted a friend). I analyzed the part where the monster is pleading with his creator to make him a friend. Well the point is, I got to chose something fun to write about, so it made it a lot easier to write.
Usually the way I write something, which I find fairly successful, is to decide on a topic, and then write down everything--EVERYTHING-- I have ever known that can relate in any way possible. And once I have that, I can decide which parts are really kind of dumb and unrelated to the topic in question, and then organize the surviving info and create themes out of it. From there, I find quotes to support my arguments, write some support and transitions from one theme to the next, add a thesis and conclusion, read through it a couple times, and Voila! it is finite!
The part I'm really bad at is... well getting anybody to read over what I've written. It's like pulling teeth(mine and the potential reader's). Nobody wants to take the time to read something other than Harry Potter or the funnies in the daily newspaper, and I don't want to take the time to find somebody. And I'm so cheap I don't like paying people to read my papers.. But I will have to work on that!
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