When I start to write a paper, I always try to make sure I understand the topic first. I will spend the first day after getting the assignment thinking about the topic and planning my introduction for a paper. After I am confident about understanding the topic of the paper, I usually begin writing. I tend to free write because I think outlines are a waste of time. In high school, my teachers would tell me to write an outline of a paper assignment, and they never helped. My paper never followed the outlines, and I never looked at the outlines to write my paper. I always change everything, so that the paper turns out to be completely different from the outline.
Furthermore, I think free writing is better because it makes your paper sound better. When I free write, I always wait until I feel like it before writing the next sentence. I think this is the best way to write a fluent paper. I also liked to be surprised by my sentences, and I think it makes writing a paper fun. In my opinion, writing should be fun.
The hardest part about writing a paper for me is developing ideas about a topic I dislike. In the past, there were some topics I either didn’t like writing a paper about or just had difficulty understanding the topic. I think it’s very hard to write about something that you don’t like. It’s hard to develop good ideas about a topic if you don’t even like that topic, and I kind of dislike it when people expect something good out of the paper that you hated writing about. I suppose that we can’t have everything we want in life, and I guess I just have to deal with it.
The kind of environment I like writing in is when there is background music. I hate it when it’s really quiet, because the kind of environment that I grew up in was never quiet. My family has always been noisy, so I like it when there is music playing when I’m doing something. It’s what I’m used to.
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You know, I had never considered that the environment I grew up in determined the kind of environment I need when I write. I'm the same way as you are in that I need music to listen to when I write, and now that I think of it I guess I also always had something going on in the background when I was doing homework in grade school. Nice observation!
You are so right, writing should be fun! It's always so much easier and faster for me to write when I am enjoying the assignment. That's why I try to pick a topic I am familar with or I am interested in learning more about, sometimes it takes longer but its usually more fun.
It is really cool that you can listen to music while you write without getting distracted, I wish I could.
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