The writing about writing assignment was about making a paper that could be about anything but had to relate to the process of writing. The setting, time, and all the tiny details in your story can be anything, but somehow they have to include the the way we write. For example someone did a story where in the near future a human space crew make first contact with alien life on a different planet. While the captain was talking to the leader of the alien world he realizes that the alien have never developed a form of writing. So the captain goes teaches the aliens how to write. That story is all fine and dandy but it's not my story. My story is better, because it's not a story. My writing about writing is literally just me writing down about my thought process of writing while writing. This was fast and easy for me because i have a very hard time creating papers. And it was also good for the reader because allows the reader to not only learn the process or writing but to also experience the pain of having to push through all those challenges like trying to get above the minimum word count so you can just be done. I didn't do this because i’m too lazy to create some fancy shmancy story that just so happily ties into the process of writing, I did it because I believe that it is the best way to show the writing process.
Griffin Tompkins
Writing about Writing
When having to write about anything the hardest part of writing it is actually starting it. At least for me it is. Just starting the writing is the single most longest part of writing anything. It’s because I don’t how I’m going to write this whole thing. How the paper starts will forever affect how the rest of the paper will play out. And since most of the time I want to make my paper perfect I spend most of the time just thinking about how I’m going to start it. And then sometimes I do start writing but then halfway through I realize that I don't like what I’m writing and want to completely start over with a brand new start of the paper. It’s a cycle that takes forever and feels impossible to break out of. Imagine you are in a roundabout on the road and you are trying to get out of it but the traffic is so bad no one will let you over to leave. So you are just stuck in your car doing the same loop over and over again. But there comes a time where that really nice person let you over and you can finally exit the roundabout. That's the feeling that you get when starting the paper and half way through you really like the paper so far. Now you just write/type anything and everything that comes to your mind. And somehow no matter how fast you are writing it and how messy it could be it looks it turns out to be the perfect fit for the start you worked so hard to make. The next part is the ending which is even easier. It could be the easiest if you're not up against a minimum word count. Word counts can mess you up a lot because you could have the perfect start and middle of your paper that you don't want to change at all. So you have to really stretch out that ending to make the whole paper go past the minimum word count. It makes the ending seem way too long and may seem like there’s some sort of mistake going on. Like 70% of the ending should be part of the middle. That’s what the reader sees but little do they know that all of the what looks like a mistake is really totally intentional just to get past that minimum word count. And even if it's really bad it's ok because the ending can be bad. If people are reading something and they love everything up until the end they can just stop reading, remember the paper they just read as being nothing but good, and leave the ending as a mystery. Finally when the ending comes to an end most likely the writer is so done and tired of writing but yet he is so happy that he just barely got over the minimum word count he makes the ending super abrupt.
Writing about Writing
When having to write about anything the hardest part of writing it is actually starting it. At least for me it is. Just starting the writing is the single most longest part of writing anything. It’s because I don’t how I’m going to write this whole thing. How the paper starts will forever affect how the rest of the paper will play out. And since most of the time I want to make my paper perfect I spend most of the time just thinking about how I’m going to start it. And then sometimes I do start writing but then halfway through I realize that I don't like what I’m writing and want to completely start over with a brand new start of the paper. It’s a cycle that takes forever and feels impossible to break out of. Imagine you are in a roundabout on the road and you are trying to get out of it but the traffic is so bad no one will let you over to leave. So you are just stuck in your car doing the same loop over and over again. But there comes a time where that really nice person let you over and you can finally exit the roundabout. That's the feeling that you get when starting the paper and half way through you really like the paper so far. Now you just write/type anything and everything that comes to your mind. And somehow no matter how fast you are writing it and how messy it could be it looks it turns out to be the perfect fit for the start you worked so hard to make. The next part is the ending which is even easier. It could be the easiest if you're not up against a minimum word count. Word counts can mess you up a lot because you could have the perfect start and middle of your paper that you don't want to change at all. So you have to really stretch out that ending to make the whole paper go past the minimum word count. It makes the ending seem way too long and may seem like there’s some sort of mistake going on. Like 70% of the ending should be part of the middle. That’s what the reader sees but little do they know that all of the what looks like a mistake is really totally intentional just to get past that minimum word count. And even if it's really bad it's ok because the ending can be bad. If people are reading something and they love everything up until the end they can just stop reading, remember the paper they just read as being nothing but good, and leave the ending as a mystery. Finally when the ending comes to an end most likely the writer is so done and tired of writing but yet he is so happy that he just barely got over the minimum word count he makes the ending super abrupt.