First draft reflection

          To be completely honest I was not excited to write this. In high school, I had purposely taken AP Language and AP Literature to avoid having to take another writing class. I was pretty disappointed when I got to FSU and realized I had to take one more. So, when this assignment came up I procrastinated quite a bit. I waited until this past weekend to take the time and really look through the requirements on the syllabus. After reading it all I felt rather overwhelmed. I had expected it to require less analysis and content than it did. I started to look up different references to start my essay and took the time to bookmark the ones I liked. Once I felt I had enough information I forced myself to work on an intro which I felt best in bodied what I wanted to write about.

            The introduction paragraph took me awhile. I would distract myself in every way possible and when I was not distracting myself I was thinking about not wanting to write while starring at the screen. This yielded more procrastination. Yesterday is the day I really told myself I had to get it done. I forced myself into a study room and actually focused. I have realized that the hardest part in writing any essay is to get started. Once I get a few paragraphs down on paper it was a breeze. My essay started to take shape and it wasn’t the tedious exercise I had been dreading the past ten days.

            I tried to actually make it a “Shitty Rough Draft”. I usually obsess over details but this time I told myself that I would truly write down what was going through my head. It made the process easier and I did not feel as stressed out even though I did go back and adjust a few things after it was down. Overall this was not as bad as I expected it to be.