I can't believe all the things I do sometimes when I write. On Wednesday morning, I was on a mission to complete an assignment for my English class. This particular assignment demanded me to record a document of me while I write. This video was about 15 minutes ( it didn't seem long when I was writing, but it looked long as I was watching). The things that I do! Mann!
Sometimes I would just go all in and write like a monster, or sometimes I would take a long ugly pause to think. What I mean by ugly is that my eyes were looking into into many different places. My face would look either mad, ugly, or even lost at times. Ha!
A sip of water keeps my tongue from being dry.
I do all sorts of things to my face when I was reading:
-Touch my ear
-Scratch my head
-Fix my hair
-Hold my head
At the end of the assignment I would always proofread.
I do the exact same thing. Whenever I need to write, I start off by looking around the room or I automatically start and know exactly what I'm going to write about. I also notice that I fix my hair too.
ReplyDeleteIt takes me a while to get started when I'm writing too, but once I get started it's hard to stop. I lose my train of thought a lot when im writing and its hard for me to remember where I was coming from. I always fix my hair, hold mehead and scratch my head, along with a lot of other things
ReplyDeleteI think getting started is about one of the hardest parts of writing. All that doing other stuff maybe frees our minds up to get to the ideas?
ReplyDeleteIt took me sometime to get started too, I am good once I get going most of the time though. However, I feel this time I had too many things to worry about since I was being recored. I was nervous. It's amazing though how many things we do in fifteen mintues.
ReplyDeleteHey Randy! I thought this assignment was interesting in the fact that I was forced to pay attention to all of the little things I do while writing. It seemed as if right when I would get an idea really going, my phone would ring or I would have the random urge to get up and do something. I think noticing these things can make us better writers. I know I became more aware of my distractions, and will eventually work on limiting those. Anyway, nice blog :)
ReplyDeleteRandy I totally agree with what you said when you said you thought that you would be like a monster when you began writing and you would just dive right into this assignment and go for it. I totally can relate to this idea and understand. I also expected to be someone who would just dive right in but it took a bit of thought. Do you ever wonder if this is an attempt to focus ?
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