“Writing is hard” as E. Shelley Reid states in her article Ten Ways to Think About Writing: Metaphoric Musings for college students. Reid isn’t wrong for the statement. In fact she is absolutely correct. Writing can be hard for the novice writer and the expert writer. It becomes even more difficult when you think about all the rules of writing. Those rules plus any possible time constraints makes writing even harder. Reid’s ten point breakdown of the rules for writing provide tips and ways to help in a writing situation.
In regards to the first point “A thousand rules and three principals” I agree with the idea of choosing to write or find interest in something that allows for that curiosity or passionate nature. As previously discovered by several assignments that I had when I was able to write out the topic that interested me the most, writing wasn’t so hard as I was familiar with what I was presenting. The hard part of writing for me is putting everything together so that it will flow smoothly. I do a lot of telling without showing enough. There’s more Jello than fruit in my writing. I
The other reason I find writing hard is that I tend to delay the writing process despite having a deadline, but of course never for my writing class. My own delay in starting a writing assignment comes from the overwhelming stress I feel about writing. Other than not always showing enough to describe what I am telling, the length of individual paragraphs can be daunting. Are my paragraphs too short? Too long? How do I know when every assignment differs? Using the methods Reid discussed like using two examples for the topic helps in figuring out how to set up a paragraph if writing an essay.
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