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The solution to writer's block...

Monday, July 02, 2007

I've figured out that writing is the solution to writer's block. Genius, I know. I'm supposed to be writing a literature review for work before my boss gets back from wherever she is right now. Somewhere in Europe, I think. Today is a good day to write. The weather is crap, so I don't want to go outside. We have Wednesday off, so I can't start any new work today, thus leaving me with a huge amount of time that should be spent working on the literature review. I have the literature. Most of it. I'm surrounded by it at the moment. Something like 25 papers in front of me. And I can't write. I've determined that the problem lies in formatting. See, I am a whiz at a five-paragraph essay. And when it comes to rambling on about life, I can tear that up in a heartbeat as all you readers can attest to. But this assignment has no format. No thesis statement. Simply "look up papers relating to your research and the compositions you're working with and write about your findings." My first solution to this problem was that I would break it into four five-paragraph essays so that they would be in a format I could wrap my mind around. That didn't work. I couldn't start. Still. So now I'm writing. Anything, everything. I'm writing this, I'm reading papers and writing random sentences about what I read. I figure at the very least I can write it and organize it later. What on earth is wrong with me?!? I mean, it's pretty obvious that I love to write. I love to use lots and lots of words. I like to talk (duh...haha). I don't mind working on papers when I have a format. Guidelines. As mister Berger would say, ajewiuwehriuw!

I guess I better go write what I'm supposed to be writing...

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