I forgot to do a blog last week. I confused when it was due with when my math homework was due, and then never got around to actually doing a blog on account of family and being sick. -If you couldn’t tell by the way I’ve been acting in class I probably caught a cold from my little brother and have been coughing since Saturday night.-
I don’t know if this says very much about my skills as a writer or my habits or rituals, but it does say something about my motivation as one. I am a very laid back individual, and have never been motivated to put much time into my high school work, or anything. In fact, the only time I’ve ever gone beyond what's expected of me are when its absolutely necessary for me to get a good grade, or when I was in marching band. If an assignment looked like it would be really time consuming, and not worth that many points, then I gave it 10 minutes and hoped for the best. Other times I would just follow the rubric for the bare minimum amount of time invested over the highest possible grade I could get for it. I'd usually take the time to do the big projects and important papers, but everything else seemed like just a waste of time to me. Admittedly this probably isn’t the best way to go through my education, but it worked in high school good enough for me. But that's not me anymore, for the most part.
Being as laid back as I am, I find it hard to force myself into unnecessary confrontations. By doing this, I usually write my papers differently depending on the opinions of the audience I am writing for. For instance, last semester I got a bad grade on a paper, and although it was a terribly written paper to begin with, I felt the grade was a little too harsh, so for the next assignment I wrote a paper supporting the exact opposite facts and did much better. Whatever this says about me or my writing didn’t really matter to me, I was just happy that I knew what to write about to pass the class.
In case you haven’t noticed, I’ve lost my train of thought several times while trying to type this up, I just can never stay on the same idea for very long before I get bored with it or think up another one by accident. I guess that would fulfill the part about my process as a writer on the rubric, I have no process as a writer, I just go with the first thought I get and write whatever comes to mind as I go.
I could sit and correct this for awhile longer, but it will still say the same things, just less clumsily, and I have other homeworks I should be doing too.
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
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Interesting, Stevie. I think what's happening underneath of this is some keen audience awareness and then analysis.
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