JUST START IT

    Sometimes-no, all the time. I have trouble with essays, or projects, or assignments. I know how to do it, I just don't. 

    It all has to do with actually starting the dang thing. This isn't about procrastination. I could sit in front of my computer for an hour without typing something. I have a very difficult time with just sitting down and starting it. Once I do start though, it's smooth sailing.

    I think that I have a fear of putting something down that I won't like and have to revise. Although revising is good, I have a problem where I want my original draft to be perfect. In a perfect world that would be true, but unfortunately that's not how it works.

    The documentary project was especially hard for me to not only start, but continue. Once I submitted my summary draft, the paper dropped to the bottom of my priority list. I feel as if I physically submitted something, it was finished.

    It took me a very long time to even open up the document again to first, revise my summary, and second, add my analysis. I didn't exactly know where to start, or what to write. It's hard for me to continue writing something when I don't have a ton of guidance.

    I like following a rubric. Something precise that I can double check to make sure that I have every single thing. I didn't mind using student examples to compare and structure my paper. I had never done it before and it is definitely a good skill to have. I think that I was just thrown off by the fact that I had no way of knowing that I was on the right track. 

    I'm curious to see how I will react to the Rational Argument paper that we have coming up. If I choose my topic carefully, and choose something that I am passionate about, I think I will be okay. I have to be smart about it though...