Blog #3 - Past Experiences with Writing

I think that I have explained most of my past experiences in my other two blogs, but I would be glad to refresh your memory. It was in high school where I began writing major papers, and English and literature were never favorite subjects of mine. I used to dread the MEAP writing portions, but as always I had gotten through it all. To be honest, I do not like beginning new papers. For some reason, I can never organize my thoughts to brainstorm. I remember in Composition class in 11th grade, when we had to brainstorm for our papers, the class would be over and I still had a blank piece of paper in front of me. I guess seeing a blank piece of paper and all its possibilities was so frightening to me that I couldn’t get past brainstorming until like 10 hours later of just thinking about it. Although, once my papers were finished, my teachers were most of the time impressed. I can be a good writer, but it scares me to begin something new.
In high school, all papers were to follow the five-paragraph format of an introduction, three body paragraphs, and a conclusion. I can see now how pointless that was. It did not prepare students for Research Paper class, where you had to forget about that format and write a ten-page research paper. So in conclusion, my past experiences with writing were not too good until the final draft was turned in--a lot of the times, my rough draft was my final. But I am hoping to forget about that and move on. I hope to do a good job in this class because I have never done movie, song, or television analysis papers before. It sounds like fun though.